Chapter 10: Family Groups and Systems

Question 1

Institution

Answer 1

Area of social life that contributes to goals while following patterns

Question 2

Smallest unit of a family - families consisting of a husband and wife with or w/o children

Answer 2

Conjugal

Question 3

Nuclear Family

Answer 3

families where two or more persons are related by blood, marriage or adoption and live together

Question 4

The nuclear family formed by marriage

Answer 4

Family of procreation

Question 5

Modified-extended family structure

Answer 5

Individual nuclear families retain considerable autonomy yet maintain in other nuclear families in their extended family

Question 6

The web of relationships among people linked by common ancestry, adoption or marriage

Answer 6

Kinship

Question 7

Serial/sequential monogamy

Answer 7

marriage to more than one person through one’s life through divorce and remarriage

Question 8

A man has multiple marriages at the same time

Answer 8

Polygyny

Question 9

A woman has multiple husbands at the same time

Answer 9

Polyandry

Question 10

Many men married to many women

Answer 10

Group marriage

Question 11

Fraternal polyandry

Answer 11

A form of polyandry where brothers are co-husbands

Question 12

A family norm that newly married couples should live separate from their parents

Answer 12

Neolocal

Question 13

A family norm that newly wed couples should live with the husband’s family

Answer 13

Patrilocal

Question 14

Bilateral lineage

Answer 14

A descent system in which influence, wealth and power are assigned to both sides of the family

Question 15

Egalitarian model

Answer 15

Decisions are equally divided by husband and wife

Question 16

Malinowski’s idea that every society has a rule that every child should have a legitimate father to act as child’s protector/guardian in society

Answer 16

Principle of legitimacy

Question 17

Families composed of at least one formerly married spouse and the children of the previous marriage(s) and new marriage

Answer 17

Blended families

Question 18

Where does conflict in families stem from?

Answer 18

Unequal distribution of resources - inequality/male dominance because of physical strength and limitations of childbirth

Question 19

Complementary needs

Answer 19

A theory of mate selection based on the idea that people marry those who provide need gratification when needs tend to be complementary rather than similar

Question 20

An intimate arrangement in which two unmarried, unrelated adults live together

Answer 20

Non-marital cohabitation

Question 21

Family of orientation

Answer 21

The nuclear family into which one was born and in which one was reared

Question 22

A family system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the father’s line

Answer 22

Patrilineal

Question 23

Exchange perspective on families

Answer 23

Rewards and costs determine norms in mate selection.

Factors like money, prestige, family position or power (most of the world) vs. love, affection, emotional support, beauty, personality, fulfillment of needs (U.S. and others)

Question 24

Interactionist Perspective on families

Answer 24

Stresses the importance of analyzing marriages and other relationships in the context they occur. Role exceptions may differ depending on setting. Ex: Marital counseling analyzes how the spouses may react to each other in response to how they interpret their actions

Question 25

A Development Perspective on Family

Answer 25

Families pass through a life cycle where failure in earlier tasks leads to increased difficulty in later tasks. Ex: first stage - marriage, second stage - birth of first child, etc.

Question 26

U.S. divorce rates

Answer 26

one of the highest in the world