Family & Relationship Flashcards
Family
Family:
- a group of people connected through:
- descent
- marriage
- or adoption
1. Family of Orientation
2. Family of Procreation
- Nuclear Family and Traditional Nuclear Family
5 Interests of Family
5 Interests of Family:
1. sexual activity
2. economic cooperation
3. reproduction
4. socialization of children
5. emotional support
Marriage
Marriage:
- legal union between two people
- procreative couple to have children through birth or adoption
- first agent of socialization
- endogamy vs exogamy
- endogamy:
- exogamy:
Types of Relationships
Monogamy: the coupling of two people, excluding the intimate involvement of others
Serial Monogamy: a relationship pattern that has one monogamous relationship following another
Non-Monogamy: sexual interaction with more than one person during any given time or
sexual relationships involving more than two people
- Cenogamy and Polyamory
- Polygamy: mutually acknowledged emotional, sexual, or romantic connection with multiple partners
- Polygyny: sexual relationship of one male partner with multiple female partners
- Polyandry: sexual relationship of one female partner with multiple male partners
Intimate Relationship & Love
Intimate Relationship:
- emotional connection
- disclosure and connection
- gendered intimacy
Love:
- Passionate love vs. compassionate love
- liquid love and modernity
Households
Non-family Household:
Family Household:
Alternative Forms of Family
Cohabitation:
Lone-Parents:
Non-resident parents:
Stepfamilies and Blended Families:
Queer Families:
Couple Living Apart Together (LDR):
Child-Free Families:
Structural/ Functional Theories of Family
**Talcott Parson and Gendered Division of Labour **
- expressive women
- instrumental men
7 Function of Family
- Population reproduction and procreation
- Emotion and Physical Care for Children
- Socialization for Children
- Financial and Economic Support
- Intergeneration Support
- Controlling Sexuality
- Social Location within Society
Conflict/ Critical Theory
Power Relationships & Access to Social Resources
- dominant group oppressing and exploiting the subordinated group
Randall Collins
- conflict within household
- gender and subordination of women in the family
- children, agism, and lack of social power
Social Reproduction
- the necessary activities that guarantee the daily reproduction and survival of the population
Feminist Theory
- family structure in maintaining social inequality
- domestic vs public sphere
- bifurcated consciousness: the experience of a division between the directly lived, bodily world of women’s lives and the dominant, masculine, abstract, institutional world to which they must adapt
Interactionist Theory
(Social) Exchange Theory:
- behaviour or action = rewards of interaction - costs of interaction
Symbolic Interactionism:
- meaning of family unit
- role of each member
- exchange theory
- Role Strain: stress that results when someone does now have sufficient resources to play a role or roles
Post-Structuralist Approach
Normalizing Discourse:
- set boundaries on what is acceptable and appropriate mode of conduct to govern people’s behaviour
State Intervention:
- daytime TV and talk shows
- parenting magazines
Queer Theory
Heteronormativity: the belief and practice that heterosexuality is the only normal sexual orientation
Family Conflicts
5 Basic Models of Family Conflicts
- The Deficit Model
- The Overload Model
- The Cultural Tension Model
- The Conflict-of-Interest Model
- The Anomie Model
Family & Gender Inequality
Family and Gender Inequality
- unequal distribution of house chores
- gender inequality and imbalance of power
3 Models of Power Distribution:
- Head-Compliment Model
- Junior Partner/Senior Partner
- Equal Partners
- global gender inequality and family lives
Abuse & Violence
- Child Abuse
- neglect
- physical
- sexual
- psychological
- medical neglect
- Shaken-baby Syndrome:
- a group of medical symptoms, such as brain swelling and retinal hemorrhage, resulting from forcefully shaking or impacting an infant’s head
- Domestic Violence
- Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
- sexual, physical, emotional, and financial
- IPV’s Demographic:
- Intimate Femicide: the killing of women by their intimate male partner
- Elder Abuse
Divorce
- factors in divorce
- Divorce Act of 1968
- No-fault divorce law of 1986
- Divorce Act of 1997
Children of Divorce & Remarriage
- emotional disturbance
- age-related ability to deal with divorce
