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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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SNAF

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Standard North American Family

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Ideology

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System of beliefs that justify certain actions/behaviours

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Religious definitions of family

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Concerned with moral issues and obligations, and teachings of faith

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Legal/Official

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May change depending on specific needs

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Scholarly Definitions

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Tend to focus on functions, processes or common elements

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Eichler (1988)

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  • Focus on dimensions of interaction
    1. Procreation
    2. Socialization
    3. Sexual relations
    4. Residence
    5. Economic co-operation
    6. Emotional ties
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McDaniel and Tepperman (2004)

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  • Focus on common elements/processes
    1. Relation Type of Attachment
    2. Sexual Relations tend to be Regulated
    3. Most families exhibit some degree of power imbalance
    4. Families tend to guard their members against internal and external danger
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40s, 50s, 60s

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  • Family is the basic institution of society

* Nuclear family

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“The Family” Permeates two spheres

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  1. Policy Making

2. Economic and Social Scientific Theories

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Fictive Kin

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Non-relatives sometimes considered “family”

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Cohen (2018)

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  • Family as an institutional arena
  • A social space in which relations between people in particular social positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
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Family arena

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Where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization and caring work

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Cohen (2018) two other institutional arenas

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  1. The state
  2. The market
    * the state and market interact
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The State

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Behaviour is legally regulated, violence is controlled, and resources redistributed
* Family is directly affected through regulation and redistribution of resources

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The Market

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Labour for pay, economic exchange, wealth accumulation

*Affects families and their decisions

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The Family Decline Hypothesis

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David Popenoe (1996, 93, 98)

  • Nuclear family is in decline
  • Increase in alternative family forms
  • Families ill suited to serve two basic functions: Child rearing and providing emotional sustenance
  • modern-day families, relative to families of the past, are in trouble and in “crisis”
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The Family Change Perspective

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Judith Stacey (1996)

  • Family is not in decline, but changing
  • Visions of traditional family no longer viable
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Present Family Trends

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  • Young adults take longer to establish themselves

* Non-traditional families

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The Family Decline View of the Present Trends

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  • Young people are rejecting the institution of marriage and family
  • Hedonistic and individualized culture, secularization is bad for families
  • Technology undermines family communication and interaction
  • Reproductive technologies allow us to reject “natural” family transitions
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The Family Change View of the Present Trends

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  • Delayed marriage just an extension of young adulthood
  • Trends show continuity and change, not a linear decline
  • Need to consider lower life expectancy in the past
  • “The Family” was patriarchal and not sustainable
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Family

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a micro-social group that reciprocally links and reflects other macro-level institutions of society

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Social demography

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the scientific study of population

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The Family (40’s, 50’s, 60’s)

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Family is the basic institution of society and that it was a social and economic unit consisting of two adults of the opposite sex who shared economic resources, sexual intimacy, labour, accomodation, reproduction and child-rearing

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Vanier Institute definition of the Family

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  1. physical maintenance and care of group members
  2. Addition of new members through procreation or adoption
  3. Socialization of children
  4. Social control of members
  5. production, consumption, distribution of goods and services
  6. affective nurturance-love
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Family of Orientation

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The family we are born into

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Family of Procreation

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The family we create

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Monolithic bias

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the tendency to treat the family as a monolithic structure with an emphasis on uniformity of experiences, and universality of structures and functions instead of a diversity of experiences, structures and functions

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Conservative bias

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tendency to ignore changes in family life

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Census Family

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defined by statistics Canada as a married or common law couple or a lone parent of any marital status with at least one child living in the same dwelling

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