Chapter 1 Flashcards
Definition of The Family:
Any sexually expressive or parent/child or other kin relationship
- related by ancestry, marriage or adoption.
- form of economic unit
- care for any young
- consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group
- are committed to maintaining that group over time.
Definition of Critical Thinking:
The ability to ask questions within reason, give any answer that can be supported while leaving all biases and prejudices aside.
The definition of Sociological Imagination:
(concept coined by noted Sociologist, C. Wright Mills)
The ability to see and understand the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society.
Choosing by default:
Decisions made by people when they are not aware of the alternatives or when they choose the path of least resistance because it is easier.
Primary Group:
Any group where there is a close face to face relationship as coined by Charles Cooley.
Secondary Group:
A group characterized by more distant, practical and unemotional relationships.
Extended Family:
Consists of a larger kin group who sacrifice the needs of individual family members for the needs and goals of the larger kin group.
Historical Functional components/ aspects of the Family (6):
- Raising children responsibly (socialization of the young)
- Providing economic support
- Providing emotional security
- Confer status to its members
- Regulation of sexual behavior
- Protection
Structural components:
Families may come in different sizes, forms or arrangements.
Household:
Any group of people living together
Nuclear Family:
A group of related persons usually consisting of husband, wife and children in an independent household.
Extended Family:
A family consisting of whole family groups to include parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, or other relatives.
Post Modern Family:
Families that exhibit a multiplicity of forms and wherein family forms continue to emerge and develop.
Family Decline Perspective:
Claims that a cultural change toward expressive individualism and self-indulgence has hurt relationships among family members, led to high divorce rates, and has undermined responsible parenting.
Family Change Perspective:
Claims that the changes in the family are the result of historically expected adjustments that are being made to changing conditions in the wider society, including the decline in well-paid working, middle and even upper- middle class jobs that used to provide solid economic family support.
