Chapter 12 Flashcards
Family
An intimate group consisting of two or more people who live together in a committed relationship, care for one another and any children and share close emotional ties and functions
Incest Taboo
Cultural norms and laws that forbid sexual intercourse between close blood relatives
Marriage
A socially approved mating relationship that people expect to be stable and enduring
Endogamy
Cultural practice of marrying within ones group
Exogamy
Cultural practice of marrying outside ones group
Nuclear Family
A family form composed of married parents and their biological or adopted children
Extended family
A family form composed of parents and children as well as other kin
Patrilocal residence pattern
Newly married couples live with the husbands family
Matrilocal residence family
Newly married couples live with the wifes family
Neolocal residence pattern
A newly married couple sets up its own residence
Boomerang generation
Young adults who move back into their parents home after living independently for a while or who never leave it in the first place
Matriarchal family system
the oldest women control cultural political and exonomic resources and consequently have power over the males
Patriarchal family system
The oldest men control cultural, political and economic resources and consequently have power over females
Egalitarian family system
Both partners share power and authority fairly equally
Marriage market (meat Market)
A courtship process in which prospective spouses compare the assets and liabilities of eligible partners and choose the best available mate
Homogamy
Marrying someone with similar characteristics such as race, ethnicity, age, education, social class or religion
monogamy
One person is married exclusively to another person
Serial monogamy
individuals marry several people but one at a time
Polygamy
A marriage form in which the man or woman has two or more spouses
Polygyny
One man has more than one wife at a time
Divorce
The legal dissolution of a marriage
No-fault divorce
state laws that do not require either partners to establish guilt or wrongdoing on the part of the other to get a divorce
Stepfamily
A household in which two adults who are biological or adoptive parents with a child from a prior relationship, marry or cohabit
Cohabitation
An arrangement in which two unrelated people arent married but live together and have sexual relationship
Dual-earner couples
Both partners are employed outside the home
Fictive kin
Nonrelatives who are accepted as part of a family
intimate partner violence (IPV)
Abuse that occurs between people in a close relationship
Gerontologist
Scientists who study the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging
sandwich generation
People in a middle generation who care for their own children and their aging parents
Old-age dependency ratio
(Elderly support ratio) The number of working-age adults ages 18-64 every person age 65 and older whos not in the labor force
Activity theory
Proposes that many older people remain engaged in numerous roles and activities including work
Exchange theory
Posits that people seek through their social interactions with others to maximize their rewards and minimize their cost
Ageism
Discrimination against older people
Continuity theory
Posits that older adults can substitute satisfying new roles for those they’ve lost
