Chapter 1

Question 1

Family as a heaven

Answer 1

Image of a refuge from an impersonal world characterizes the family as a place of intimacy, love, and trust in which individuals may escape the competition in modern society.

“Haven in a heartless world”

Two themes: love and protection

Question 2

Idealized marriage

Answer 2

assumes that families are based on companionate or consensual relations

Question 3

Monolithic family form

Answer 3

image of a white, middle calss, heterosexual father as a breadwinner, mother as home maker, and children at home living in one- family house.

the uniform image has been imprinted on our brains since childhood, books, radio, tv, movies, etc.

Question 4

Assumptions

Answer 4

assumed sexual division of labor: “ a breaadwinner husband, freed for and identified with activities in a spearate economic sphere, and a full time wife and mother whose being is often equated witht he family itself”

Although this family type is now represented by 10% of the U.S. families but major social and cultural forces continue to assume this singular form

Question 5

Family consensus and unification

Answer 5

1. power relations within the family
2. competitive aspects of family relations
3. new patters of work and leisure which lead to different activities for family memebrs
4. the intense emotional quality of family life

Question 6

Social construction

Answer 6

Macro and micro level. Social structures are abstract and often indivisible

Question 7

Family reconstruction

Answer 7

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Question 8

Macro level

Answer 8

Examines the family in relation to the rest of society. Illustrates how larger social systems shape the smaller family systems.

Question 9

Micro level

Answer 9

Analysis examines the internal dynamics of family life. Examine the varied “experiences of kinship, intimacy, and domestic sharing. “