Chapter 10 Families

Question 1

Nuclear Family

Answer 1

Includes parents and their children

Question 2

Extended Family

Answer 2

Includes grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins

Question 3

Simple Household

Answer 3

Unrelated adults with or without children living together.

Question 4

Complex Household

Answer 4

Two or more adults who are related but not married to each other living together.

Question 5

Crude Marriage Rate

Answer 5

Number of marriages per 1000 people in a population.

Question 6

Common Law

Answer 6

Living together but not married.

Question 7

Teen Pregnancy Rates

Answer 7

Quebec (2.5) and BC (2.6)-Lowest percentage of births to teens. Highest is Saskatchewan (8.1), Manitoba (8.0) and Nunuvat (20.3)

Question 8

Fecundity

Answer 8

Ability to conceive. 91% at 30, 77% at 35, 53% at 40.

Question 9

Total Fertility Rate

Answer 9

Estimate of average number of children that a cohort of women between ages 15-49 will have in their lifetime

Question 10

Cluttered Nest

Answer 10

When adult children continue to live at home with their parents.

Question 11

Rod Beaujot

Answer 11

Studied delayed life transitions. Also complementary vs companionate.

Question 12

Families in Quebec

Answer 12

Highest cohabition rate (33.95%), lowest marriage rate (2.9 per 100000), highest divorce rate (69.2 per 100 marriages), highest number of divorces among couples married less than 30 years (61.0 per 100 marriages) Conclusion-Quebec went through more rapid modernization and outright change during last 40 years.

Question 13

Conjugal (marital) roles

Answer 13

Distinctive roles of husband and wife

Question 14

Elizabeth Bott

Answer 14

Conjugal roles as either segregated or joint. Tasks, interests, and activities differ vs shared. Created the Bott hypothesis.

Question 15

Complementary Roles

Answer 15

Men are the primary earners or breadwinners. Women primarily do the childcare and housework.

Question 16

Companionate Roles

Answer 16

Roles overlap

Question 17

Double Burden (second shift)

Answer 17

Women are more companionate than men-they work AND take care of children, men do less of this.

Question 18

Double Ghetto

Answer 18

Marginalization of women in the workplace and in the home

Question 19

M. Reza Nakhaie

Answer 19

Gender is a greater factor than relative income or available time in determining how much housework an individual does.

Question 20

Gender Strategy

Answer 20

Plan of action through which a person tries to solve problems given cultural notion of gender.

Question 21

Occupational Segregation

Answer 21

Women choose jobs which have greater flexibility in terms of child care related work interruptions.

Question 22

Endogamy vs Exogamy

Answer 22

Marrying within the same ethnic, religious, or cultural group as oneself vs marrying outside of one’s group.

Question 23

Nancy Mendell and Ann Duffy

Answer 23

Canadian sociologists-government discouraged possibility of developing families among women of colour.

Question 24

Scientific Racism (eugenics)

Answer 24

Used to justify prejudices based on supposed genetic inferiority of certain immigrant groups to North America.

Question 25

Scientific Classism

Answer 25

Supports prejudice against the poor.

Question 26

Sexual Sterilization Act

Answer 26

25% were metis and first Nations. Sixties Scoop-Removed large number of indigenous children from their families, communities, and the indigenous world.

Question 27

What are the changing patterns of marriage?

Answer 27

1. Marriage rate is decreasing, cohabition is increasing
2. Age of first marriage is rising
3. Age of women giving birth for the first time is rising
4. Number of children per family has dropped, birth rate is below death rate, Canadian population is shrinking
5. Since 1966, lone parent families are increasing
6. There are more people living alone than before
7. Children are leaing home at a later age.

Question 28

Polygamy

Answer 28

Unites 3 or more people. Polygyny (man has many women). Polyandry (woman has many men). Much more common in low income countries, is an expression of wealth.

Question 29

What are the legal peramaters of marriage

Answer 29

Can be legally married at 18, legally married at 16 with parents consent, legally married at 14 with courts consent.

Question 30

What sanctions were put on indigenous people to control marriage?

Answer 30

Houses were smaller so indiginous people could not live with extended families, monogamy.

Question 31

Indigenous Teaching and Learning

Answer 31

Is lifelong, there are 4 stages: Childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and amturity. Knowledge is aquired through experience and interaction, everyone is connected. Individual knowledge becomes collective knowledge.

Question 32

Oval Tradition

Answer 32

Storytelling, passing information through generations preserves history (sharing circles).

Question 33

Seven Generations

Answer 33

Learning through relationships, extended family role. Importantce of intergenerational relations (7 generations into the past and future).

Question 34

Fosterage Practice

Answer 34

Grandchildren are sent to live with grandparents, both parties benefit.

Question 35

Reciprocity

Answer 35

How to give back to the environment

Question 36

Inductive Discipline

Answer 36

How actions impact others. Punishments include teasing, scary stories, and ignoring-encourages proper behaviours.

Question 37

Naming Ceremony

Answer 37

Establishes identity and child’s place in the community