Exam #2 Flashcards
What is the title of the TED talk by Robert Waldinger? What is it about?
“What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness”
Good relationships keep us happier and healthier, good for our health
Isolated people find that they’re less happy and don’t live as long
The TV show 18 to life: “A Modest Proposal” talks about?
Is 18 too young to get married? Why?
About two 18-year-olds wanting to get married?
The film “The psychology of your future self” is by who and about what?
Dan Gilbert
Change slows as we age
One constant in our life is change
What is the title of the TED talk by Isabel Allende, and what is it about?
“How to love passionately—no matter your age”
Live passionately no matter your age
Say yes to life
The film “farewell Oak street” was about? (1955)
Birth of public housing
Relationship between the family and the state
Cycle of poverty → born poor
Employees building is something that even they can’t afford
Film is about cleanliness
Public housing, the state is intervening
The film generation jobless was about?
Higher education pushing people into jobs with no future… Certain jobs are disappearing
250,000 fewer young people without jobs
Canada has the highest unemployment graduate rate
What was the title of the book by Carle Zimmerman?
Family and civilization (1947)
Who was the book “the divison of labour in society by?
Emile Durkheim
The filtering process of mate selection (8 steps)
- Pool of eligibles (plus sex ratio and marriage rates)
- Propinquity filter
Proximity/geography - Attraction filter
Physical attraction, personality
Men look for health and attractiveness
Women look for a good provider - Homogamy filter (including endogamy and exogamy)
Endogamy = social pressure to marry someone within your group, expectation
Exogamy = social pressure to marry someone outside the group
Age, ethnicity, education, socioeconomic class, religion - Compatibility filter
Temperament. Attitudes and values, needs, roles, habits - Trial filter (testing it out)
Cohabitation, engagement - Decision filter
Is this it or not? - Marraige
What is sex ratio and what does it have to do with marriage rates?
Sex ratio refers to the # of males per every 100 females in a particular population. A high sex ratio (or more men than women) leads to higher marriage rates. A lower sex ratio (more women than men) leads to lower marriage rates.`
Kinship, continuity and change (5 parts)
- Kin
Related by blood or marriage - Consanguineal kin
Related by blood - Affinal kin
Related by marriage - Nuclear family (now dominant)
Mother, father and child - Extended family (used to be dominant)
Uncle, aunt, grandmother, etc.
What is the title of the book by William Goode?
World Revolution and Family Patterns (1963)
What was the book by William Goode: World Revolution and family patterns about?
Modernization: how family changed from agriculture to industrial - biggest change was the distance from extended family
Canada used to be a much more rural society
People used to need access to extended family for labour
Smaller families meant fewer mouths to feed
Meaning of convergence?
Family shrunk
What were Carle Zimmerman’s main points from his book; Family and Civilization? (5)
- Relationship between authority, family, and the state
Any formal system of publication
At different points in history, we will have more power…
Inverse relationship: - Trustee families
Patriarchal clan
No formal state - Domestic families
Dad is the primary breadwinner, mom works in the home, kids go to school
Zimmerman thinks that this is ideal - Atomistic Families
The family is maxed out. Can’t teach children, therefore the state has education - Some conservative implications
Women in the workplace
Conserve domestic family
What perspective of the story from the textbook “Go with the Flow” illustrate?
Adapting to new living situations
Strong family
Yes, “male/female” role
What is power?
“Power in intimate relationships is defined as the ability to influence one’s partner to get what one wants”
Why do people want power? (4)
- Self-actualization
Living as well as you can
Feel fulfilled - Social expectations
People exert power because that is what they feel they are supposed to do - Family-of-origin influences
What does power look like in my home?
Power in cohesive way (culture)
The function of how you’re raised - Psychological need
Obsession → wanting to control
Insecurity → fill gaps within self
Families in poverty (7 parts)
- Social Inequality and stratification
How is money/power/wealth/etc distributed in Canada?
Intergenerational mobility
His dad didn’t graduate vs. Rob getting his PhD - Relative/absolute
Poverty in relative context
Absolute: absolute measure of poverty. What is defined as poverty? Clear line is drawn by the government - Many influences
Why are some people poor?
Societal: Alberta in tough times (oil) Bigger than ourselves we can’t influence it
Individual: education, how hard you work, attitude, ability to get and keep a job, disability - The working poor
Can be working hard yet still poor - Marital effects
Not as stressed/strained relationship when you have money - Divorced mothers
Statistically, they’re more likely to be poor - New Canadians
Living conditions → from Africa, no friends, no money
Those here with the least amount of time (immigrants) and those here the longest (first nations) are statistically most likely to be poor
