Ch 11: Social Development Flashcards
What 3 roles often define adult life?
Marriage, parenthood, work
What are the historical changes in Western marriage compared to the ideas in India and the Middle East?
In Saudia Arabia, divorces women can be socially shunned. In India, emerging adults that have their family’s approval are free to choose a mate. In the US, marriage is often a middle class achievement
Under what conditions is marriage an ideal state?
If the marriage is generally happy
What is the deinstitutionalization of marriage?
Decline in marriage and emergence of alternate family forms in the last third of the 20th century
What is serial cohabitation?
Living sequentially with different partners outside of marriage
What is the U-shaped curve of marital satisfaction?
Most common pathway of marital happiness in the west, satisfaction is highest at the honeymoon, declines during the child rearing years, then rises after the children grow up
What is the triangular theory of love?
Categorization of love relationships into 3 parts: passion, intimacy, and commitment
What is consummate love?
Ideal form of love, involves all 3 major facets of love: passion, intimacy, and commitment
What are fertility rates?
The average number of children a woman in a given country has during her lifetime
What does the transition to parenthood look like?
Parenthood makes couples less intimate and happy.
Heterosexual couples have more traditional marital roles.
What is marital equity?
Fairness in the work of a couple’s life together, if not equitable, the outcome is often marital dissatisfaction
What is breadwinner role?
Traditional concept that a man’s job is to support a wife and children
What is the nurturer father?
Father who actively participated in hands-on child care
How do couples cope with having children?
Good communication before having children and an involved and caring father
How has parenthood changed over time?
Parents are spending more time with their children, mothers provide more hands on care and dads are playing more with the kids and doing more routine care
What factors influence the level of involvement from the father?
Personality, emotional regulation, positive relationship with father, feeling competent and happy about providing care, wanting the child, and level of commitment to working long hours
What are the four major changes in the modern work world?
Traditional stable career, The Internet Revolution, rise of the gig economy, boundaryless careers
Which qualities make for career happiness?
High core self evaluations in high school, high self-efficacy, optimistic attitudes, finding your career as your calling
How does work different for women and men?
Women earn less than men, periodically leave the work force to provide family care and work lower paying jobs
What is the traditional stable career?
Permanent life work starting in their 20s and often staying with the same organization until retirement
What are boundaryless careers?
Common Western career path, people change jobs or professions periodically during their working lives
What are Holland’s 6 personality work types?
Realistic, investigative, artistic, social, entrepreneurial, conventional
What is role overload?
Job that places so many demands on workers that it becomes impossible to do a good job
What is role conflict?
When a person is torn between two or more major responsibilities and cannot do either job well, such as parent and worker
What is work life balance?
When people feel perfect balance, energized and happy at work and fulfilled with other aspects of their lives
What is occupational segregation?
Separation of men and women into different kinds of jobs
