Chapter 1: A Sociology of the Famiy Flashcards
What is genealogy?
It is the study of ancestry and family history.
What are families?
They are groups of related people, bound by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional.
What is a personal family?
They are the people that we feel related to and we expect us to define us as members of their family too.
What is a legal family?
It is a group of individuals related by birth, marriage, or adoption.
What is an institutional area?
This is a social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction.
What is a family arena?
This is the institutional arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, and socialization, and caring work.
What is a census?
This is a periodic count of people in a population and their characteristics, usually performed as an official government function.
What is a household?
A group of people that live and eat separately from other groups.
How does the census bureau define households?
They define it as a family that lives together in one household.
What is the state?
It is the institutional arena where behaviour is legally regulated, violence is controlled, and resources are redistributed.
What is the consensus perspective?
Is it a perspective that projects an image of society as the collective expression of shared norms and values. Society exists as an enactment of social order.
What is the breadwinner-homemaker family?
An employed father, a non-employed stay at home mother, and their children.
What is the conflict perspective?
This is the view that opposition and conflict are a problem in society, and are necessary for social evolution.
What is the feminist theory?
This is a theory that seeks to understand and ultimately reduce inequality between men and women.
What is socialization?
The process by which individuals internalize elements of their social environment into their personalities and identities.
