Chapter 1 Voc. Flashcards
Unrelated individuals who are treated as if they are related
Affiliated Kin
A separate social and psychological stage of development coinciding with puberty and characterized by rebellion and crises.
Adolescence
refer to the definitions and explanations people have about what is true.
Beliefs
a family in which members live in two different households, often results of being divorced and their children spending time with both
Binuclear Family
(step-family) created when two people marry and one or both brings into the household a child or children from a previous marriage or relationship
Blended Family
a type of living arrangement in which a man and a women living together present themselves as being married and are legally recognized as such
Common-Law Marriage
The marriage was supposed to provide romance emotional growth,and sexual fulfillment; wives were no longer supposed to excise sexual restraint;spouses shared decisions and task equally; and adolescent children were allowed greater freedom from parent supervision
Companionate Family
The study of population and population characteristics
Demography
such as family size, marriage and divorce rates, and ethnicity and race
Demographics
describes cultural characteristics that distinguish one group from another
Ethnicity
includes not only the nuclear family but others as well uncles and aunts, nieces, and nephews, grandparents,even great-parents
Extended Family
The family into which you were born or in which you grew up.
Family of Orientation
(family of orientation) The Family into which you were born in or which you grew up
Family of Origin
(family of procreation) the family you begin if and when you get married and have children
Family of Cohabitation
A unit of two or more people who are related by blood,marriage, or adoption and who live together
Family
When decisions are made, family collective concerns take priority over individual concerns
Familism
The trend of the world economy toward becoming a more interdependent system.
Globalization
Any group of persons residing together
Household