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26 Cards in this Set
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Families (Definition 1)
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A group of people, related by bonds of blood, marriage, or adoption, and who live together, for an economic unit, and bear and raise children
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Problem with Definition 1 for families
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Challenged because it does not reflect single parent households, unmarried couples, L/G families, multiple generation families
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Families (Definition 2)
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Relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young (or old) and consider their identity to be significantly attached to a group
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Kinship
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A social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption
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Family of Orientation
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The family into which a person is born, and in which early socialization usually takes place
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Family of Procreation
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The family that a person forms by having or adopting children
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Extended Family
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The family unit composed of relatives, in addition to parents and children, who live in the same household
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Nuclear Family
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A family composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives.
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Marriage
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A legally recognized and or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity.
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Monogamy
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Marriage between two partners, usually a man and a woman
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Polygamy
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Concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex
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Polygany
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One man and multiple woman
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Polyandry
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One woman and multiple men
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Patrilineal
(Patterns of descent and inheritance) |
Traced though male
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Matrilineal
(Patterns of descent and inheritance) |
Traced through female
* Issue of "maiden" name/married name, names of children |
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Functional Perspective on Families
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Families maintain stability of society
- Sexual regulation: expected of families - Socialization: small groups=increased level of interaction=best - Economic and psychological support - Assignment of social status: either good and or bad |
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Conflict Perspectives on Families
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Families replicate gender and class inequality
- Families replicate dominant/subordinate relation pattern - Women burdened by unequal childcare expectations - Families perpetuate unequal social class status |
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Symbolic Interaction Perspective on Families
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Families produce (and reproduce) a shared reality
- Interaction creates a shared reality |
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Postmodern Views on Families
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Families are permeable
- Permeable/fragmented families - "Consensual love" = friends with benefits - Shared parenting: including nannies - Private/Public boundary blurs |
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Love and Intimacy
(Developing Intimate Relations) |
- Industrial revolution: work/male home/female different
spheres - Emphasis on romantic love as criteria for marriage - NORC: 9% engage in at least 1 homo act (behavior) 6.2/4.4 homo attraction (attraction) 2.8/1.4 gay/lesbian identity (identity) |
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Cohabitation
(Cohabitation and Domestic Partnerships) |
Two people who live together and think of themselves as a couple without being legally married.
- Under 45 years - previously married - of younger, employed, not college - May lose financial benefits if remarried (retirement benefits) - Couples that cohabitate before marriage, not necessarily more stable. |
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Domestic Partners
(Cohabitation and Domestic Partnerships) |
Household partnerships in which an unmarried couple lives together in a committed, sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights and benefits as those accorded to married couples
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Homogamy
(Marriage) |
Refers to the pattern of individuals marrying those who have similar charactersitcs, such as race/ethnicity, religious background, age, education, and social class
- Partner selection highly predictable, similar class/ascribed status |
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Housework and Childcare Responsibilities
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- 50% of marriages dual earners
- 1974: 74% of moms w/kids 6 and under work full time - 5 Mill. children home alone after school - Children consider daycare providers part of extended family |
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Deciding to have children
(Child related family issues and parenting) |
- Avg. 2 kids (varies by race/ethnicity)
- Pronatalist bias: assumes having kids is the norm - "Second shift" - domestic work after workday job (Hochschild) |
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Single Parent Households
(Child related family issues and parenting) |
- Increase in single-parent households 10.6/1970 -
16.4/2003 - Increased child development probs w/divorce (but not the cause) ?Do you accomodate (reduce problems or maintain status quo?) |
