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Family Flashcards

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Family

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two or more people related by blood, adoption, some form of extended commitment, and who reside together

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Marriage

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a commitment and an ongoing exchange. The commitment can include legal or contractual elements, as well as the social pressures against dissolution. The arrangement includes both instrumental and expressive exchanges

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Expressive exchanges

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the emotional dimension of marriage, including sexual gratification, companionship, and empathy

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Instrumental exchanges –

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the task-oriented dimension of marriage, including earnings a living, spending money, and maintaining a household

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Premarital sexual standards

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– standards by which people judge the acceptability of premarital sex

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Abstinence standard

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– the premarital sexual standard that allows no premarital sex

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Double standard

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– the premarital sexual standard that allows premarital sex for men only

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Love standard

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the premarital sexual standard that permits premarital sex for persons of either gender if they are in love

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Fun standard

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– the premarital sexual standard that approves of premarital sex for either gender, even without love

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Homogamy

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– marriage of persons with similar physical, psychological, or social characteristics. This is the tendency for like to marry like

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Heterogamy

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– marriage between persons who are dissimilar in some important regard such as religion, ethnic background social class, personality, or age

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Mating gradient

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– the lesser power of a woman in a typical marriage, partly due to her being younger than her husband

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Collaborative or role-sharing model

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– model of task sharing in a family where both spouses spend an equal amount of time at both paid and unpaid work

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Complementary-role model

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– model of task sharing in a family where the husband spends more time at paid work and the wife spends more time at unpaid work

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Double burden

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– model of task-sharing in a family where typically the wife is doing the same amount of paid work but more unpaid work

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Nuclear family

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one or two people and their unmarried children

Standard North American Family

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Extended family

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nuclear family plus other kin

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Endogamy

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marriage between people of the

same social category

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Exogamy

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marriage between people of

different social categories

20
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Propinquity

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spatial proximity

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Descent

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the way people trace kinship over generations

22
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bilateral descent

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descent traced through both the mother’s and

father’s side of the family

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patrilineal descent

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descent is traced only to the father’s side

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matrilineal descent

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descent is traced only to the mother’s side

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Patrilocality

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married couple live with or near the husband’s family

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Matrilocality

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married couple live with or near the wife’s family

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Neolocality

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married couple live alone

28
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Gay and lesbian marriage = children?

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lesbians 5x morel likely to have child,

live in 3 largest cities

29
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cohabitation

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the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple
16% of canadian in common law
fast growing family type since 2011

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4 stages of acceptance of cohabitation

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Kiernan

  1. prelude to marriage
  2. cohabitation is probationary period
  3. cohabitation is socially acceptable in norms of society
  4. alternative or substitute for marriage
31
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Divorce

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40% marriage end in divorce
• Higher probability of divorce with early marriage
• Higher incidence of divorce for re-married
• Divorce occurs because exchanges are unrewarding
before 1969: adultery, desertion

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Infedelity

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– generally doomed to fail

- 45% of men, 35% of women, will if given opportunity

33
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oxorcide

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murder of wife

  1. leaving relationship
  2. man thinks he’s lost control
34
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remarriage

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80% of divorced remarry
– blended families…
• children of more than one family
men within 18m, women 5 years
 - women have kids
35
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Parenting in Other Cultures

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• authoritative parenting style is 
rare in non-Western cultures
• obeyed without question or 
explanation
• greater inherent authority
36
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Structural-Functional

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The family performs several 
vital tasks:
• (1) Socialization
 (2) Regulation of sexual activity
• (3) Social Placement
• (4) Material and Emotional 
Security
• Society depends on families.
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Social-Conflict Analysis

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Family perpetuates social 
inequality:
 (1) Property and inheritance
• (2) Patriarchy
• (3) Racial and ethnic inequality
• Family plays a role in social 
stratification.
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Symbolic Interactionism

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Explores how individuals shape 
and experience family life.
• Family living offers an 
opportunity for intimacy.
• Family members share 
activities and build emotional 
bonds.
• Courtship and marriage may be 
seen as forms of negotiation.
39
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Feminism

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Family perpetrator of gender 
roles
• Rethink notion that families in which no adult male is present 
are automatically a cause for 
concern
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Future Change & Continuity

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Marriage not likely to go out 
of style
• Biggest change: liberation of 
gender roles and an 
unlinking of gender & caring
• Women work and men care 
for children more
41
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Parenting Styles

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  • Indulgent
    – Authoritative
    – Authoritarian
    – Neglectful
42
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Risman

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Study of 19,000 young people, 18y – 22y
Wants to know if people who do sex are respected
If women want a lot of sex, respect them less… yes or no?

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Risman conclusions

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Egalitarian conservative – lose respect equality for men and women who have sex
Egalitarian libertarian – don’t lose respect for either
Traditional double standard – lose respect fir women, not men
Reverse double standard – lose respect for men, not women

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Double ghetto

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combination of working in pink collar ghetto of paid labour and domestic ghetto of unpaid labour

45
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Consanguine marriage

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Extreme form of endogamy

Blood relatives marry each other

46
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Propinquity

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proximity to who you marry, being changed by internet

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