chapter 14: Marriage and Family

Question 1

what is marriage

Answer 1

a legally recognized social contract between two people, traditionally based on a sexual relationship and implying a permanence of the union.

Question 2

what is cultural relativism

Answer 2

practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one’s own culture

Question 3

marriages create what

Answer 3

families

Question 4

what families deviate from the social model

Answer 4

single parent household or homosexual couple without children

Question 5

what do social conservatives define family as

Answer 5

the family in terms of structure with each family member filling a certain role (like father, mother, or child).

Question 6

what do sociologists define family as

Answer 6

define family more in terms of the manner in which members relate to one another than on a strict configuration of status roles.

Question 7

what is family

Answer 7

socially recognized group (usually joined by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption) that forms an emotional connection and serves as an economic unit of society. Sociologists

Question 8

what is a family of orientation

Answer 8

refers to the family into which a person is born

Question 9

what is a family of procreation

Answer 9

one that is formed through marriage