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Chapter 15- Families And Intimate Relationships Flashcards

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

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Demographers

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See families as kinship systems

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Anthropologists

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Think of family as a social institution with multiple dimensions

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Sociologists

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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

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What is a family?

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

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Family

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

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Kinship

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A socially and legally approved sexual relationship between two individuals

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Marriage

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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

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Nuclear family

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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.

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Extended family (joint family)

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The family in which a person is born into

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Family of orientation

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The family one creates via marriage, children, adoption

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Family of procreation

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

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Matrilocal

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

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Patrilocal

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A marriage in which one person ONLY has one spouse

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Monogamy

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

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Polygamy

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Man may have 2 or more spouses

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Polygyny

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Woman may have 2 or more spouses

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Polyandry

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Group marriage

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Cenogamy

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Practice of marrying within the same ethnic/social group

Ex: Indian marries Indian

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Endogamy

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Marrying outside own ethnic group

Ex: Indian marries Spanish

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Exogamy

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

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Primary socialization

22
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The role the family plays in assisting its adult members emotionally

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Personality stabilization

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Formation and dissolution of families and households

Evolving expectations within personal relationships

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Modern perspectives in the sociology of families focus on

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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

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

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Historical perspectives on families

Phase two

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Cohabitation

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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

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Single parent families

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

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Lesbian and gay families

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Couples that live in different residencies

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Couples living apart together

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Partners equally share all benefits, burdens, and responsibilities

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Egalitarian relationships

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

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In 2000, children grew up in

35
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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

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Divorce and children

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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

37
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Individual opportunity for everyone
Focus is on preventing discrimination
Less concern in the United States for recreating the traditional family through maternal support

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Social policy in the United States

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