Ch.4, Intimacy and Family formation

Question 1

Intimacy

Answer 1

consists of a distinct social relationship governed by norms, based on emotions, and situated in a specific social location

Question 2

Family demography

Answer 2

study of changes in family structure

Question 3

why has there been a decrease in marriage

Answer 3

linked to economic trends

Question 4

Multigenerational households and why they exist

Answer 4

households that include at least 3 generations of the same family; may be due to Canada’s changing ethnocultural composition that includes more indigenous/immigrant populations that believe in this way of liar, and/or the high cost of living in the country and therefore multiple generations live together

Question 5

Blended families

Answer 5

stepfamilies that include at least one child from a previous relationship plus one from the current relationship

Question 6

Stepfamilies, Canada vs US

Answer 6

Canada: based on marriage and cohabitation
US: refers to only remarried families

Question 7

Why does Quebec view cohabitation as more of an acceptable environment to raise a child in?

Answer 7

different religious and cultural backgrounds: quiet revolution that shifted Quebec society to become much more secular and abandon the church

Question 8

Reproductive technologies

Answer 8

broad range of technologies used to facilitate, mediate, or disrupt the process of conception

Question 9

Vitro fertilization

Answer 9

ovary and sperm are fertilized in lab

Question 10

Kinship permutations

Answer 10

made possible through reproductive technologies

Question 11

Plastic sexuality

Answer 11

sexuality that is detached from reproduction

Question 12

Confluent love

Answer 12

relationship of sexual and emotional equality; pure relationship
not based on longterm commitment, or children

Question 13

Post familial family

Answer 13

individualization is becoming the central unit of social life and has changed the nature of social ties within and between families to create the post-familial family

Question 14

Egalitarian pure relationships

Answer 14

married and cohabiting

Question 15

Detraditionalization

Answer 15

Neil Gross argues there has been a decline in regulative traditions that have regulated sexual behavior, but this does not mean the replacement of fluidity and agency in relationships

Question 16

Meaning-constituive traditions

Answer 16

common sense understandings passed down from one generation to the next: still reinforce the regulative tradition of heterosexual marriage as the dominant ideal

Question 17

Effects of welfare funds promoting marriage

Answer 17

no evidence that these programs have increased marriage rates or strengthened unions between unmarried parents

Question 18

when did Canada legalize same sex marriage

Answer 18

4th country in the world to legalize it

Question 19

Sexual scripts

Answer 19

refer to the cognitive models and cultural patterns that inform desire and influence behavior

Question 20

social exchange theory

Answer 20

minimizes costs and maximizes rewards

Question 21

Living apart together

Answer 21

an intimate relationship with a partner who lives somewhere else

Question 22

Census family

Answer 22

heterosexual or same sex family living in the same dwelling including parents and children, could be either or both spouses