Ch.4, Intimacy and Family formation Flashcards
Intimacy
consists of a distinct social relationship governed by norms, based on emotions, and situated in a specific social location
Family demography
study of changes in family structure
why has there been a decrease in marriage
linked to economic trends
Multigenerational households and why they exist
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
Blended families
stepfamilies that include at least one child from a previous relationship plus one from the current relationship
Stepfamilies, Canada vs US
Canada: based on marriage and cohabitation
US: refers to only remarried families
Why does Quebec view cohabitation as more of an acceptable environment to raise a child in?
different religious and cultural backgrounds: quiet revolution that shifted Quebec society to become much more secular and abandon the church
Reproductive technologies
broad range of technologies used to facilitate, mediate, or disrupt the process of conception
Vitro fertilization
ovary and sperm are fertilized in lab
Kinship permutations
made possible through reproductive technologies
Plastic sexuality
sexuality that is detached from reproduction
Confluent love
relationship of sexual and emotional equality; pure relationship
not based on longterm commitment, or children
Post familial family
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
Egalitarian pure relationships
married and cohabiting
Detraditionalization
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
Meaning-constituive traditions
common sense understandings passed down from one generation to the next: still reinforce the regulative tradition of heterosexual marriage as the dominant ideal
Effects of welfare funds promoting marriage
no evidence that these programs have increased marriage rates or strengthened unions between unmarried parents
when did Canada legalize same sex marriage
4th country in the world to legalize it
Sexual scripts
refer to the cognitive models and cultural patterns that inform desire and influence behavior
social exchange theory
minimizes costs and maximizes rewards
Living apart together
an intimate relationship with a partner who lives somewhere else
Census family
heterosexual or same sex family living in the same dwelling including parents and children, could be either or both spouses
