Ch. 7- Marriage and the Family Flashcards
Micro-institutions
Institutions that structure socialization and the affectual life; tend to be personal and private; they relate to our sense of personal security and shape the satisfaction we find in our personal interactions.
Functionalism
views society as a system composed of various interdependent parts, such as actors, institutions, and the state; these parts have functions to serve within society and are assumed to work together with a tendency toward stability.
Gendered division of labor
the differing ways that work and responsibility are divided up in the family between husband and wife.
Rates
the number of times a particular phenomenon takes place in a specific period of time.
Marriage squeeze
the restricted supply of available partners that result when a woman chooses to delay marriage.
Contracts
Binding relationships, often regulated or enforced by law, that specify and negotiate particular behaviors (i.e., marriage)
Transformation of marriage
Term that refers to postmodern efforts to denaturalize marriage and redefine the nature of the marriage contract (i.e., gay marriage)
Denaturalization
Process by which something assumed to be normal, universal, and accepted is challenged or modified and thus no longer seems obvious or natural.
Nuclear family
a form of family organization typically consisting of husband, wife and the children who are their offspring.
Extended family
a form of family organization that combines several generations and a variety of different kinship relations, as when grandparents, aunts, or uncles live together with a traditional nuclear family.
Consanguineal family
a form of family organization that includes the conjugal nuclear family as well as a larger kinship network of grandparents, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and cousins.
Conjugal nuclear family
a form of family organization that emphasizes the marital bond and the nuclear family; are less stable than consanguineal families owing to their lack of close kinship network, but have more autonomy and independence.
Family unit
Term introduced by William Goode that refers to the modern understanding of the family as a self-sustaining group.
Family system
a term introduced by William Goode that refers to the traditional understanding of the family as an interdependent group of individuals who work together as a micro-social system.
Patriarchal
an adjective referring to the organization of the family around father-rule and, more broadly, to the organization of a society or social system around the idea of a male dominance, superiority, and power.
Feminism
a set of ideologies that emerged from the women’s movement with the aim of promoting women’s equality and ending sexist practices; and more broadly, a framework used to observe and interpret how gender and gender inequality are employed and enforced in society.
Reproductive technology
Technological developments ranging from contraception to artificial insemination, that have allowed sex to be entirely separated from child-bearing
Loss of family values
The supposed postmodern phenomenon whereby the family is breaking down and its significance is declining.
What is
Institutions that structure socialization and the affectual life; tend to be personal and private; they relate to our sense of personal security and shape the satisfaction we find in our personal interactions.
Micro-institutions
What is
views society as a system composed of various interdependent parts, such as actors, institutions, and the state; these parts have functions to serve within society and are assumed to work together with a tendency toward stability.
Functionalism
What is
the differing ways that work and responsibility are divided up in the family between husband and wife.
Gendered division of labor
What is
the number of times a particular phenomenon takes place in a specific period of time.
Rates
What is
the restricted supply of available partners that result when a woman chooses to delay marriage.
Marriage squeeze
What is
Binding relationships, often regulated or enforced by law, that specify and negotiate particular behaviors (i.e., marriage)
Contracts
What is
Term that refers to postmodern efforts to denaturalize marriage and redefine the nature of the marriage contract (i.e., gay marriage)
Transformation of marriage
What is
Process by which something assumed to be normal, universal, and accepted is challenged or modified and thus no longer seems obvious or natural.
Denaturalization
What is
a form of family organization typically consisting of husband, wife and the children who are their offspring.
Nuclear family
What is
a form of family organization that combines several generations and a variety of different kinship relations, as when grandparents, aunts, or uncles live together with a traditional nuclear family.
Extended family
What is
a form of family organization that includes the conjugal nuclear family as well as a larger kinship network of grandparents, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and cousins.
Consanguineal family
What is
a form of family organization that emphasizes the marital bond and the nuclear family; are less stable than consanguineal families owing to their lack of close kinship network, but have more autonomy and independence.
Conjugal nuclear family
What is
Term introduced by William Goode that refers to the modern understanding of the family as a self-sustaining group.
Family unit
What is
a term introduced by William Goode that refers to the traditional understanding of the family as an interdependent group of individuals who work together as a micro-social system.
Family system
What is
an adjective referring to the organization of the family around father-rule and, more broadly, to the organization of a society or social system around the idea of a male dominance, superiority, and power.
Patriarchal
What is
a set of ideologies that emerged from the women’s movement with the aim of promoting women’s equality and ending sexist practices; and more broadly, a framework used to observe and interpret how gender and gender inequality are employed and enforced in society.
Feminism
What is
Technological developments ranging from contraception to artificial insemination, that have allowed sex to be entirely separated from child-bearing
Reproductive technology
What is
The supposed postmodern phenomenon whereby the family is breaking down and its significance is declining.
Loss of family values
