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Legal vs Social Science Definitions of Family

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Family - A relationship by blood, marriage, or affection in which members may cooperate economically, may care for children and consider indetity to be intimatelly connected to the larger group

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Family of Orientation

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Family you were born into

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Family of Procreation

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Family you make through marriage, partnering, and/or parenthood

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Fictive Kin

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Nonrelatives whose bonds are strong and intimate

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Functions of families

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Support

Love

Fighting / Forgiveness

Financial Support

Stability

Homebase

Companionship

Guidance

Comfort / Care

Remodel

Regulation of Sexual Behavior

Reproducing and Socializing Children

Property and Inheritance

Enconomic Cooperation

Social Placement, Statue, Roles

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Marriage

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An institutional arrangement between persons to publicy recognize social and intimate bonds

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Anthropologist William Stephen’s Definition Marriage

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  1. Socially legitimate sexual union
  2. Public Announcement
  3. Undertaken with some idea of permanence
  4. Assumed with a more or less explicit marriage contract
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Family as social institutions

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A major sphere of social life, with a set of beliefs and rules that is organized to meet basic human needs

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Monogamy

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Marriage between one man and one woman

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Polygamy

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A system that allows for more than one spoise at a time (Gender unspecified)

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Patterns of Authority

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  1. Patriarchy
  2. Matriarchy
  3. . Egalitarian
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Patriarchy

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A form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that men have a natural right ti be in positions of authority

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Matriarchy

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A form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that women have a natrual right to be in positions of authority

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Egalitarian

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Men and women are equal in society

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Patterns of Descent

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  1. Bilateral
  2. Patrilineal
  3. Matrilineal
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Bilateral

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Descent traced from both male and female side of family

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Patrilineal

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Descent traced from man’s line of the family

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Matrilineal

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Decent traced mostly within the women’s family line

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Residence patterns

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  1. Neolocal - Exceptation that newly married couples live independently
  2. Patrilocal - Exceptation that newly married couples live with the husband’s family
  3. Matrilocal - Exceptation that newly married couples will live with wife’s life
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Empirical Approach

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Collection of data to predict behavior

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Goals of Family Research

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Describle some phenomena

Examine the factors that predict or associate with phenomena

Explain the cause-and-effect relationships or provide insight into why certain events do / do not occur

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Six Research Methods

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  1. Survey
  2. In-depth interviewing
  3. Experiments
  4. Focus Groups
  5. Observational Study
  6. Secondary Analysis
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Survey

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Questions to collect data about something

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In-depth Interviewing

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Looking for themes and examples of this questions to tell us more about certain topics

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Experiments

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All scienc gold standard, they have a controlled method for finding casue and effect

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Focus Groups

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Individual experiences that are similar to others

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Observational Study

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Handss on as well as sitting back and just watching

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Secondary Analysis

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Data from another purpose to understand different issues

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Research Design

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Qualitative Research: Narrative descriptions with words to analyze patterns and develop meanings

Quantitative Research: Data that can be measured numerically

Mixed Mrthods : Both working together

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Theory

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A general framework, explanation or tool used to understand and describe the real-life world

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Family Theories

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  1. Structural functionalism: model of why invested in relationship
  2. Conflict: social inequality
  3. Feminism: parenting related to gender
  4. Social Exchange: cost benefite of being in a relationship
  5. Symbolic Exchange: words/gestures to symbolize relations
  6. Developmental Theory: developmental framework related to families
  7. Systems Theory: something effects one family member it effects them all
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Social Stratification

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Hierarchical ranking of categories of people in society

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Sociological Imagination

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Recognition that our personal experiences are, in large part, shaped by forces within the larger society

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Sex vs Gender

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Sex; Biological, physiological, and usually set

Gender: Sociially constructed, mannerisms, and more self-identified

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Androgyny

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In between masouline and feminine

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Gender Socialization

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Teaching the cultural norms associated with being male/female

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Agents of Socialization

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Primary groups responsible for gender socialization

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Childhood: Learn to “do gender”

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Children are greatly defined by gender

  • Name, clothing, decorations
  • Treatment by parents and teachers
  • Model behavior of some gender individuals
  • Rewarded for stereotypical behavior, punished for nonstereotypical
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Children

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Age 0-2: Know gender

Age 2-5: Preschool aged chldren endorse rules, by 4 most kids playmates are of the same gender

Age 5-11: age 3-7 endorse rules, pre-adolescents hold more flexible gender roles

Adolescence: overt in enacting/enforcing gender roles, trying on roles to determine/establish gender

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Race and Ethnicity

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Population growing more diverse

Race: skin color

Ethnicity: cultural, belief, language, food and other values

Ethnic Groups - a group of people who share specific cultural features

Minority Groups - less power than domain groups, subject to unequal treatments

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Social Capital

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social networking connections, which can be a valuable source of information

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Prejudice

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negative attitude about members of selected racial/ethnic group

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Stereotypes

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Oversimplified sets of beliefs about a group of people

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Discrimination

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Behaviors, action or practices based on race

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Individual Discrimination

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One person exhibiting a negative behavior towards another

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Institutional Discrimination

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A group of simiiliar people exhibiting negative behavior toward others

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Poverty guidelines (Poverty Line)

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Guidelines established in 1964 as a way to measure the number of people living in poverty; based on a thrifty food budget, mulitipled by 3

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Consequences of Poverty Line

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Inadequate Health/Nutrition: food insecurity (lack of nourishing food)

Quality of Home Environment

Parental Stress and Mental Health

Fewer Resources for learning

Housing problems

Poor-quality neighborhoods

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Social mobility

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Movement from one social class to another

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Voluntary temporary singles

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Unmarried adults who may be delaying marriage while pursuing education or establishing a career

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Voluntary stable singles

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Unmarried adults desiring a single (unmarried) lifestyle

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Involuntary temporary singles

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Singles actively searching for a mate but unable to find a sable one

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Involuntary stable singles

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Unmarried adults who can expect to be single for life even though they may not want to be

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Cross-sex friendships

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A friendship between a man and a woman that is strictly platonic

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Calling

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A dating practice of the 18th and 19th centuries in which a young man would visit a young woman in her parents’ home

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Adolescence

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The period of life that occurs between childhood and adulthood

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Principle of least interest

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The idea that unequal emotional involvement between romantic partners has implications for the quality and stability of relationships

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Dating script

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A set of expectations around dating that are somewhat different for men and women

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Homogamous relationships

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Relationships in which we spend most of our time with people who are very similar to ourselves

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Propinquity

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Geographical closeness

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Pool of eligibles

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The group from which we are likely to choose our mates

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Cohabitation

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An arrangement in which two people live together without being married

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Selection effect

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An explanation for the fact that people who cohabit tend to be the same ones who later divorce

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Spurious

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When a relationship between two variables is actually caused by a third variable

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