Chapter 15- Families And Intimate Relationships

Question 1

Refer to family as a group of people who live together in households and share legal ties

Answer 1

Demographers

Question 2

See families as kinship systems

Answer 2

Anthropologists

Question 3

Think of family as a social institution with multiple dimensions

Answer 3

Sociologists

Question 4

Critical social institution that functions as part of society
A distinct social group with its own roles, patterns, and behaviors
A CULTURAL UNIVERSAL, but structure varies

Answer 4

What is a family?

Question 5

A group of individuals related to one another by blood ties, marriage, or adoption
Form an economic unit

Answer 5

Family

Question 6

A relation that links people through blood ties, marriage, or adoption

Answer 6

Kinship

Question 7

A socially and legally approved sexual relationship between two individuals

Answer 7

Marriage

Question 8

A family group consisting of 2 adults living together in a household with their own or adopted children

Ex: My wife and I, and our children

Answer 8

Nuclear family

Question 9

A family consisting of more than 2 generations of relatives living either within same household or very close to each other

Ex: My wife and I, our children, and my parents.

Answer 9

Extended family (joint family)

Question 10

The family in which a person is born into

Answer 10

Family of orientation

Question 11

The family one creates via marriage, children, adoption

Answer 11

Family of procreation

Question 12

A family system in which the husband is expected to live near the wife’s parents

Answer 12

Matrilocal

Question 13

A family system in which the wife is expected to live near the husbands parents

Answer 13

Patrilocal

Question 14

A marriage in which one person ONLY has one spouse

Answer 14

Monogamy

Question 15

A marriage in which a person may have 2 or more spouses

Answer 15

Polygamy

Question 16

Man may have 2 or more spouses

Answer 16

Polygyny

Question 17

Woman may have 2 or more spouses

Answer 17

Polyandry

Question 18

Group marriage

Answer 18

Cenogamy

Question 19

Practice of marrying within the same ethnic/social group

Ex: Indian marries Indian

Answer 19

Endogamy

Question 20

Marrying outside own ethnic group

Ex: Indian marries Spanish

Answer 20

Exogamy

Question 21

The process by which children learn the cultural norms and expectations for behavior of the society into which they are born

Answer 21

Primary socialization

Question 22

The role the family plays in assisting its adult members emotionally

Answer 22

Personality stabilization

Question 23

Formation and dissolution of families and households

Evolving expectations within personal relationships

Answer 23

Modern perspectives in the sociology of families focus on

Question 24

Families were closely connected to kinship networks

Families were organized around work and community obligation and were kept in line with highly structured authority

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Historical perspectives on families

Phase one

Question 25

The nuclear family's connected to kinship and community weakens Emphasis on marital and parental love

Answer 25

Historical perspectives on families | Phase two

Question 26

Affective individualism- the belief in romantic attachment as a basis for contracting marriage ties Family and work spheres are separate

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Historical perspectives on families | Phase three

Question 27

Stable and disciplined High mortality rates and lower life expectancies Authoritarian parenting styles Harmonious domestic life Control over women's movement and sexuality Violence in the family

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MYTHS of the traditional family

Question 28

Rising age at first marriage Increasing number of people living alone Sharp rise in cohabitation Increasing number of single parent and stepfamilies High rate of divorce Only 20% households are "traditional" families

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Trends in US today

Question 29

Couples sharing a home and a bed without being married Now understood as a stage in the relationship process before marriage Main reason why people do cohabitation is to ensure future compatibility Statistics show that people who cohabit before marriage are MORE LIKELY to divorce

Answer 29

Cohabitation

Question 30

The US has highest rate of single families, Japan has lowest About 50% of children spend part of their childhood in single parent families Single families usually headed by women

Answer 30

Single parent families

Question 31

Netherlands was the first country to allow same sex marriage in 2000 Vermont was the first state in US to legalize same sex marriage

Answer 31

Lesbian and gay families

Question 32

Couples that live in different residencies

Answer 32

Couples living apart together

Question 33

Partners equally share all benefits, burdens, and responsibilities

Answer 33

Egalitarian relationships

Question 34

21% children grew up in household where father was employed and mother stayed at home 41% children grew up both parents employed

Answer 34

In 2000, children grew up in

Question 35

Children living with both parents are better off in life on average Sleeper effect of divorce- individuals who showed positive recovery following childhood parental divorce later exhibit adjustment difficulties in young adulthood

Answer 35

Divorce and children

Question 36

``` Implementation of no-fault laws Declining stigma(beliefs) Less connection to extended family obligations or to property between families Women's economic independence Unrealistic expectations of each other ```

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Why so much divorce

Question 37

Individual opportunity for everyone Focus is on preventing discrimination Less concern in the United States for recreating the traditional family through maternal support

Answer 37

Social policy in the United States