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Family isn't necessarily

People you're blood related to & it isn't always warm, fuzzy, & inviting.

Why do we construct families?

For the sharing of resources, whether monetary, emotional, etc.

Some of the limitations of the family & work line of research include the focus on

Selective categories of workers & industrialized nations

Long hours, poor quality jobs, little control over working time, & overload at work are strongly associated with

Poorer work-family interaction

What is more common: negative work-to-family interaction or negative family-to-work interaction?

Negative work to family

What are the two types of work-family strain & which is worse?

General strain is worse than time-based strain

What are some of the limitations of today's research on work and families?

Most of the work has been done in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. It's first world centric

The existing body of work over researches them

Professional and managerial workers living in rural couple households with children

There's a little research done on how work, family, and this intersect

Community

Includes activities undertaken in paid employment or through self-employment

Work

Defined as a group who pool social life, money, and time to sustain their everyday life

Family

What immediately affect the individual?

Microsystems

What is the order of the different systems we live in within society?

Microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem

Relative power of employees and employers, difference between men and women, prevailing technologies, work cultures the nature of the regulatory regime and immigration arrangements

These are several factors that are consistently relevant at each level of work

What are the four aspects of work, family, and community that are influential?

Time, space, life stage, power

How spatially separated and distant from each other the aspects of work, family, and community are

Space

This between socioeconomic groups, employers and employees, men and women, and ethnic groups all affect the demands and resources that are experienced in each domain

Power

This has been scarcely studied but men's work has received all the attention

Household work

This progression in education and employment has improved, but not nearly as much as the improvement between social classes

Women's progression

This was developed as a response to social movements and their demands for changes in the social and economic situation

Feminist activism

By the 1990s, this research was included in academic practice

Feminist perspectives and gender research

This is important in relation to increasingly competitive economic times that have exacerbated rather than eroded women's inequalities

Gender studies

What was Smith's innovative question regarding women's work?

Whether mothers work in families was comparable to paid employment within the economic system and he assumed that it could be

In what realm of society in relation to children have poor and working class families found to be in a serious position of inequality?

School and education

This type of work consisted of a similar form to other kinds of economic work within the labor market

Mothering work

It was originally assumed that the engine of social and gender inequalities lay in the economic system and the inequalities en gendered through paid work. It is now believed that this relation is far more complex antibodies not only economic processes that also psychic and emotional ones

Family school relation

Expectations about this influences the practice of learning and teaching both in schools and home

Normal families and mothers care for their children

Despite the opening up of economic and educational opportunities for women,

Schools and families are increasingly reproducing the inequalities that they were supposed to be tackling

It's been argued that the political changes in North America have led to increasing advantages for these people and greater inequalities amongst these people

middle class families, poor and working class families

And orderly set of ideas which describe, explain, and predict behavior

Theory

These give meaning to what we observe, and are used as a basis for action finding ways to improve the lives of individuals within society

Theories

These are primarily designed to be helpful but sometimes end up being a harmful

Theories

Interdisciplinary theory about nature, science, etc

Systems theory

Best theoretical framework that study organisms or mechanical objects. Idea based on how ideas and societies fit together

Systems Theory

Based off of the systems theory, our modern society lives in what kind of system?

Educational

Individuals cannot be understood separate from their family

Family systems theory

What is the first sister in society of you are a part of as a person?

Family

This theory these families as emotional support, financial aid, source of moral teaching

Family systems theory

Interrelationships among systems shapes a child's life

Ecological systems theory

Immediate surroundings. School, parents, friends

Microsystem

Relationships among entities involved in the micro system. Example: parents talking to teachers

Mesosystem

Social institutions that impact indirectly. Families jobs, mass media

Exosystem

Cultural values, laws. Local community

Macro system

Changes during life personally and culturally. A system that can move around at any time

Chrono system

Changes in the system can affect everything about someone's life through all of the levels

Chrono system

What is an example of? You get into a car accident, you can't afford a new car as a parent, see your child has to walk to school, which means they have to get up earlier, which means they can't concentrate as well

How's the chrono system can affect every aspect of life

Theory that men and women should be equal

Feminist theory

Work is divided by gender. Patriarchy affects both men and women and how they exist in society. If you don't fall within a feminine or masculine category, society doesn't know where to put you

Feminist theory

Evaluates race and racism from a legal point of view

Critical race theory

This is ingrained in the fabric of American society

Racism

Past research that did this helps to further the continuation of disenfranchisement of these groups

Generalized specific races of people

Describes how oppressive institutions are interconnected and can't be examined separately

Intersectionality

These make it possible to explore the whole life span, - discover the meaning and motives for observable behavior, and to chart developmental trajectories

One-on-one interviews

Focusing on this rather than the forms families assumed at any given moment led to the availability to group families by how well they were able to adapt in the face of change

The paths that families took

When surveyed, some young people the living in this type of family as a benefit, while others saw it as a disadvantage

Traditional family

Why do perceptions matter?

Because views of the past inform future actions

Have the birth rates dropped or increased over the last hundred years?

Dropped dramatically

What two factors led to a large increase in the population of people 50 and older living in an empty nest and an increasing proportion of elderly Americans living alone?

Extensions of life and reductions in birth

The elderly today end their parenting ______, they have _____children and they live _____ in the elderly a few generations ago

Earlier, fewer, longer

The increasing delay in marriage contributed to what?

Premarital sex

This, both before and after marriage has increased significantly in the last few decades

Cohabitation

There are consistently rising rates of children living with

A single parent

What proportion of Americans get married at some point in life?

A great majority

What do Americans prefer when it comes to households?

Married couples with children

Single parenting has become disproportionately a trouble for which community?

The black community

The blacks and whites equally values the aspiration of getting married, blacks have become

More disappointed with or even cynical about marriage

This claim that the family lost its functions to the state and other institutions and therefore became weaker

Classic sociological theories of the family

Troubles with marriages and parenting are highly among Americans with

Disadvantages

For more advantage Americans, being on Wed, childless, or divorced is less a matter of necessity and

More a matter of new opportunities

What are the five stages of the family life cycle?

Independence, coupling / marriage, parenting, launching adult children, retirement

This stage includes: critical skill building, being able to care for self in a different way, having to adjust to new people

Launching adult Children / empty nest

Developing a new type of relationship with children is a key skill in which stage?

Empty nest / launching adult children

What is the boomerang generation?

When kids move out but have to come back to live with parents

What is an example of economics coming back to affect economics?

When people can't leave home at a certain age, they don't buy houses or large goods and it comes back to impact the economy

What proportion of Americans are living in a multi-generational home?

One in six

Multigenerational home with adult children over 21 living at home with parents

Accordion household

This is not the norm for the middle class since before World War 2

A multi-generational home with adult children over 21 living with their parents

Multi-generational family households become associated with this when adult children are moving toward becoming independent

Shame or frustration

What big issues can cause a strain on a multi-generational household?

When a household is financially strained or when different generations don't agree on child-rearing practices

Think support for the family members of the big aspects of which stage of life?

Retirement