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19 Cards in this Set
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Fertility rate
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the average number of children that women bear in their lifetime
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Aging populations
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situations in which the percentage of the population 65 and older is increasing relative to other age groups
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Kinship
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view family as made up of members who are linked together by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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Defining Family
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can emphasize kinship, membership characteristics, legal recognition, and/or social function.
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Membership characteristics
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view family in terms of who should be counted as a family member
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ideal
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a standard against which real cases can be compared
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Legal recognition
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when legal recognition is the defining criterion of a family, a family is defined as two or more people whose living and/or procreation arrangement are recognized under the law as constituting a family.
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Social function of the family
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-to regulate sexual behavior
-to replace dying members of society -to socialize the young -to provide care and emotional support -to confer social status |
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Life chances
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A critical set of potential social advantages, including everything from the chance to live past the first year of life to the chance to live independently in old afe.
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Conflict view of family life
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conflict theorists argue that family members have competing interests and some members have the power to exercise their will over other members.
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Reproductive work
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involves not only bearing children but cargiving, managing households, and educating children.
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Secure parental employment
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A situation in which at least one parent or gaurdian is employed full-time (35 or more hours for at least 50 weeks in the past year)
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Exogamy
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includes norms requiring or encouraging people to marry someone from a different social category.
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Endogamy
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includes norms requiring or encouraging people to marry a member of the same social category.
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Surplus wealth
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wealth beyond what is neede to meet the basic needs (food and shelter)
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Foritified households
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preindustrial arrangements in which households act as armed units, as there is no police force, malitia, national guard, or other peacekeeping organization.
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Private households
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emerge with the establishment of a market economy, a centralized, bureaucratic state, and agencies of social control that alleviate the need for citizens to take the law into their own hands.
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Advanced market economies
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-offer widespread employment opportunities for women
-men and women offer each other economic, social and reproductive benefits in partnerships. |
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Cargiver burden
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The extent to which caregivers believe that their emotional balance, physical health, social life, and financial status suffer because of their caregiver role.
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