Chapter 10 Families Flashcards
Nuclear Family
Includes parents and their children
Extended Family
Includes grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins
Simple Household
Unrelated adults with or without children living together.
Complex Household
Two or more adults who are related but not married to each other living together.
Crude Marriage Rate
Number of marriages per 1000 people in a population.
Common Law
Living together but not married.
Teen Pregnancy Rates
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)
Fecundity
Ability to conceive. 91% at 30, 77% at 35, 53% at 40.
Total Fertility Rate
Estimate of average number of children that a cohort of women between ages 15-49 will have in their lifetime
Cluttered Nest
When adult children continue to live at home with their parents.
Rod Beaujot
Studied delayed life transitions. Also complementary vs companionate.
Families in Quebec
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.
Conjugal (marital) roles
Distinctive roles of husband and wife
Elizabeth Bott
Conjugal roles as either segregated or joint. Tasks, interests, and activities differ vs shared. Created the Bott hypothesis.
Complementary Roles
Men are the primary earners or breadwinners. Women primarily do the childcare and housework.
Companionate Roles
Roles overlap
Double Burden (second shift)
Women are more companionate than men-they work AND take care of children, men do less of this.
Double Ghetto
Marginalization of women in the workplace and in the home
M. Reza Nakhaie
Gender is a greater factor than relative income or available time in determining how much housework an individual does.
Gender Strategy
Plan of action through which a person tries to solve problems given cultural notion of gender.
Occupational Segregation
Women choose jobs which have greater flexibility in terms of child care related work interruptions.
Endogamy vs Exogamy
Marrying within the same ethnic, religious, or cultural group as oneself vs marrying outside of one’s group.
Nancy Mendell and Ann Duffy
Canadian sociologists-government discouraged possibility of developing families among women of colour.
Scientific Racism (eugenics)
Used to justify prejudices based on supposed genetic inferiority of certain immigrant groups to North America.