Final Ch.6 Flashcards
In class students defined this as:
those ides as we hold and view as valid, binding core beliefs.
Here are some ideas that state and are related to this term:
Traditional, Monogamous, heterosexual, Love, cooperation, cohesiveness, loyalty
Family values
Who and who’s family does the Kimmel (2013) refer to when describing the “dysfunctionality” of a family?
Sara Palin, daughter Bristol, BF, and his mother
In what century did Kimmel (2013) refer to the “father being so dedicated to work they were becoming absentee landlords at home.”
19th century
For “over a century” we have been debating about whether of not the
family is in a crisis
At this time they stated that if women entered the workplace or got to vote the family would “collapse”
19th century
What has happened to marriage rates?
Less than ___% of AMerican women aged 35-44 were legally marries in 2010; the marriage rate that years was__ _____ in 40 years!
Marriage rates have consistently DECLINED
62.5%
the lowest
Today, Married people seem ____ ____ then they did a generation ago.
Why?
less happy
b/c we are more ISOLATED, have fewer close confidants and friends, and have little social support for family life
What has increased dramatically in the past 2 decades from 1.1 million in 1977 to 7.5 million in 2010
Cohabitation
40% of _____ marriages end in divorce 60% of those marriages ______ _______.
1st marriages,
involve children
one third of all births are ______.
to unmarried people
22% of children…
live without their biological fathers
Children who are raised by only one parent …
are more likely to commit crome, drop out of school, have lower grades, and have emotional problems
_____ feels like the most fragile of social institutions, it is also among the most _____.
Family
Resilient
the ______ ______ continues to adapt to changing circumstances
family form
The proportion of ______ who remain single all there lives is actually lower today than it was at the start if our century
women
The fact that almost half of all marriages in the US are remarriages indicates what?
the continued belief in the institution of marriage
based on today’s nuclear family, what is this crisis associated with family linked primarily to?
“misplaced nostalgia”
A romanticized notion that the family form of the 1950’s (the era of many of the debater’s adolescence) is a timeless trope that all family forms ought to emulate.
“Misplaced Nostalgia”
In the 1960s anthropologist Raymond Birdwhistell labeled misplaced nostalgia the
“sentimental model”
often our description of the family conform more to____________ than to out actual experiences
this mythic model
This as launched by the women’s movement in the 1960s gave working women a political peg upon which to hang their aspirations and longings
“Feminine Mystique”
The assumption that women achieve greatest achievement from motherhood. They must be very involved in the child’s lives and provide for there emotional needs, provide a safe haven for lives difficultly, devotion to children is good.
The motherhood mystique
Issues for women to reconcile this mystique with societal expectations to earn money
mommy wars
what are the 3 basic type of revolutionary men?
stalled revolution fathers
rebels
involved fathers
This type of man takes breadwinning position, maintains authority in household (traditional roles)
Stalled revolution fathers
these men want to maintain anatomy by avoiding parenthood, if they have kids they are detached and want to maintain individualism
Rebels
These men try to integrate work and parenting and lose self-personal time and leisure
The involved father
according to the PEW report: how many men feel like they spend; too little time w/children? just right amount of time w/children? too much time w/children?
46
50
3
According to the PEW report: how many women feel like they spend; too little time w/children? just right amount of time with children? Too much time w/children?
23
68
8
How dual income cols divide their time: (18-65 marr., living with partner,full-time/part-time children in household) MEN Paid work? Housework? Child care? all three combined?
M: 42 (1) 9 (2) 7 (3) 58<---
most is Paid work, second is housework, Last children
How dual income cols divide their time: (18-65 marr., living with partner,full-time/part-time children in household) WOMEN Paid work? Housework? Child care? all three combined?
After looking at both men and women states, what doe this info. suggest?
WMN: 31 (1) 16 (2) 12 (3) 59
A package of policies provided either voluntarily by employers as part of collective bargaining agreements of provided as stationary benefits, that facilitate the recondition of work and family life
Family-Freindly workplace policies
Job protected leaves from employment to fathers for many of the same purposes as maternity and parental leaves but esp. for reasons of gender equity
Paternity leaves
A payment to families for each child they have, regardless of income or whether the mother is employed of not
Child allowance
The failure to invest in_______ can lead to ________ loss of productivity, shortages in need skills, high health care costs, growing prison costs, & a nation that will be less safe, less caring, and less free
Children
Economic efficiency
housework ______ for women and _______ for men after marriage
Women receive _____ form other networks
Men receive _______ from other networks
emotional needs
instrumental pleasures
sociologist say that working women become tired and unhappy b/c of ____________
second shift
the transformation of AM. life promised by women/s entry into the labor force is a_____________________
stalled revolution
this depends on mens changes in men’s attitude and behaviors
stalled revolution
Pat Mainardi argued that the separation of spheres that defined the traditional family and made housework “women’s work” was a reflection of male domination
“the personal is political”
a split shift arrangement w/one’s spouse which is negotiated by about 1/4 of all work in the US and by 1/3 of all workers with children under 5
informal flex-time
fathers fear being seen by there colleagues and m=bosses as less ;committed to their careers and fear being placed on this
daddy track
what does research show, these individuals have less opportunity has less opportunity to stay away from what role than the other gender does
Fathers masculine role than women and their feminine roles
________ reinforces gender inequalities
work policies
________ mothers are the sole breadwinners of family
4 in 10
Buding and England found that women are facing the ______________ Penalty at work
Motherhood
Why are women facing the motherhood penalty
- discrimination by employers (hence, the motherhood mystique all women want to have children)
- employers assume mothers wil be less present
- less productivity bc distracted by children
- woman are assumed to leave after they have the child (salary differential)
Why do women leave the work place more often?
- lack of balance and strain bw the family
- day care issues
The meaning of marriage over time has changed, what are the 4 ways marriage has been defined throughout time?
- Early 19th cent of overture= husband and wife=1 person in law
- union b/w 2 separate but equal individuals who have diff. rights and responsibilities to each other marr. is shared partnership in which born spouses, should have equal overlapping responsibilities for economy, household, and children tasks
- now we are trying to redefine things=sam-sex marriage
prior to 1993-
women could not be rapped by their household
Today the family is less the “haven in a heartless world” of nostalgic sentimentalism and more the ______ of the contradictory pressures from the world outside
SHock Absorber
a normative idea when is was invented, has never been the reality for all am., it represents the last outpost of a traditional gender relations- gender diff. created through gender inequality
traditional families
