Chapter 13 Flashcards
Family
A social institution that unites individual in the cooperative groups that care for one another including kids
Kinship
Refers to a social bonds based on common ancestry marriage adoption and you guys individuals and families
Nuclear family
One or two parents and their children
Extended family
Parents and children and grandparents aunts uncles cousins who live close to one another and operate as a family
Marriage
Waffle relationship usually involving economic cooperation sexual activity in childbirth
Families of affinity
With or without legal blood ties or children who feel they belong together and design themselves as a family
Sociological perspective
Examines not only behavior of individuals and families but takes of your Health family life is shaped explores how patterns a family life are linked income education gender and r
How are US families change it
Trends include increasing number of people living together without being married people man later and single moms
Cohabitation
The sharing of a household by unmarried couple
Critics of cohabitation
Men are more easily walk out on women and children men run the risk of losing legal rights to raise their children
After three years cohabitating couples go through directions
Getting married splitting up or continuing to live together
Why are people Mary later
Young people enrolling in college and graduate school women who join the labor force improvement in birth control and the availability of legal abortion economic insecurity
Consequence of delayed marriage
Independent of their parents less parental input and a choice a partner for you to form relationships such as same-sex or interracial unions
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Said the African-American family was approaching crisis because of the fathers who left the children and mothers behind this threaten the African-American community with a cycle of poverty
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Argues that the breakdown of African-American family is the result of long-term racism which results in discrimination and jobs education housing
William Julius Wilson
There are simply not enough good jobs to allow African-Americans with disadvantages urban under class to support a family blaming the victim
Most people who receive public assistance or white
Class position is a powerful force that defines family life
20% of marriages end by separation dissolution divorce within five years
Within 20 years half of marriages break up
No fault divorce
No one hast to take the blame to get the divorce Your reconcilable differences
Alan Parkman
A weakness and no-fault divorce is that the policy ignores cultural capital which includes skills screwing that increase a persons earning power
Deadbeat dad’s parents punishment act
Making a serious crime to refuse to provide support payments to a child residing in another state or move to the United States in order to avoid making payments
Blended families
Families in which children have some combination of biological parents and stepparents
Challenges a blended families
New household rules routines building relationships with new siblings adjustments and establishing relationships with unfamiliar children
Full faith and credit clause of the US Constitution
Mandates that any contracts including marriage performed in one state must be recognized by all states
Politics and same-sex marriage debates
Conservatives argue that such families do not offer the best selling to his children
Liberals counter that all people who form committed relationships weather gay or straight I want ties to be recognized socially legally they support same sex marriage
Louise brown
First baby conceived via reproductive technology in a laboratory in England
In vitro fertilization
Uniting egg and sperm in a laboratory
Surrogate motherhood
Arrangement by which one woman carries embarrass a child for another woman
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Cultural lag
When scientific discoveries advance more quickly than or ideas about acceptable ways to use them
Structural functional theory on family
Family is the foundation of all societies
George Murdock
Families exist in the world because they perform four major tasks central for operation and society
George Murdock four major task essential for operation of society for families
Families are the means For reproduction
Create a stable and caring environment
Engage in economic cooperation
Provide emotional support
Symbolic interaction theory family
Views the family less as a society institution and more as the ongoing interactions of individuals help family members understand each other
Limitations of symbolic interaction approach
Although family life is variable number Patterns are common like
Social class
Social conflict theory on the family
Family plays in important part in the operation of society Points To how The family is linked to patterns of social inequality
Friedrich Engels
Family life comes from being among will 64 as a strategy allowing them to pass the property from one generation to the next and operates to protect inheritance
Social conflict theory suggests
That the path toward an egalitarian Society requires the elimination of the family
Feminist theory on the family
How the family is linked to gender stratification which is the social domination of women by men
Fredrick Engels linked the family to what
Class inequality
1st defining men heads of family
2nd Household wealth became mens wealth
3rd men in control of womens sexual behavior
4th men expect woman to take care of the home
Engels Concluded that the family turns women into a sexual economic property of men
Limitation on Feminist theory
Men and women have become more equal and the family worlds both men and women providing income to the family
Conservative views on the family
Family is the most important social institution because it does the most to instill basic values support family values
Liberals view on the family
The different people favor different kinds of families or no family at all family diversity cohabitation single-parent families blended families and singlehood
Feminist view on the family
Traditional family’s limit women’s opportunity to earn a living and trap some women in abusive relationships
The radical left view on the family
Family and social equality family at least in its current form perpetuate social inequality The end of the family as we know it
Radical left you on the family social inequality Engels described it in three ways
Family perpetuates class stratification in generations
Family helps perpetuate gender stratification
Traditional ideals about family life serve to promote conventional heterosexual relationships
Radical left family life solution
Increasing social equality as possible only by radically reconstructing the family as it exists today
Liberal view family solution
Encouraged tolerance for all types of families including same-sex marriage increase women’s economic opportunities enforce anti-discrimination laws
Conservative view family solution
Encourage the spread of culture of marriage encourage people to view commitment as a positive way abolish no-fault divorce laws discourage couples from living together.
