Families Flashcards
The _________ ___________ is defined as comprising two married, opposite sex parents and their biological children who share the same residence.
nuclear family
____________ ___________ __________is a nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home.
Traditional nuclear family
According to _____________, in order for society to survive, people must cooperate economically, they must have babies, and these babies must be raised in an emotionally supportive environment so they can learn the norms of the group and become productive adult members of society.
Functionalism
the nuclear family provides a basis for which 5 main functions?
regulated sexual activity, economic cooperation, reproduction, proper socialization, and emotional support
___________ __________ are nomadic groups of 100 or fewer
people, and they have a gendered division of labour.
Foraging Societies
In _________ ____________ societies, men generally hunt and women generally gather (wild edible plants) and do most of the child care. this is the division of labour that functionalists focus on.
Foraging Societies
In foraging societies, research has shown that men often tended to babies/children; if hunts were not successful, men joined women in gathering plant based food; and in some cases, women were also hunters. True of false?
True
_________ __________ believed that the traditional nuclear family
developed only when inequality of wealth developed (aka: surplus wealth).
Fredrich Engles
____________ is the male domination and the norms that support and justify that domination are deeply rooted in the history of humankind.
Patriarch
There are 2 main factors that reduce the gender gap in domestic chores. What are they?
(1) when a couple earns roughly the same amount of money (2) Attitude: when both partners agree the household division of labour SHOULD be equal.
