Lecture 9: Families

Question 1

family

Answer 1

people who are related by blood one way or another or through legal ties

Question 2

Nuclear Family

Answer 2

straight relationships who are socially accepted and with one or more child

Question 3

traditional nuclear family

Answer 3

straight relationship with traditional gender roles

Question 4

polygamy

Answer 4

nuclear family with one or more spouses (usually women) to the household

Question 5

extended family

Answer 5

adding another generation one or more of the spouses parent of the household

Question 6

marriage

Answer 6

ideally long-term sexual and economic union between a man and a woman

Question 7

structuralist functionalist

Answer 7

1. Social stability depends on how well the family performs these social functions
2. The family has important social functions

Question 8

how family performs social function

Answer 8

1. Role specialization increases efficiency of family functioning
2. Socialization
3. Social scripts

Question 9

important social functions

Answer 9

1 Regulated sexual activity
2. Economic Cooperation
3. Reproduction
4. Socialization
5. Emotional Support

Question 10

crude marriage rate

Answer 10

of marriages that occur in a year for every 1000 people

Question 11

crude divorce rate

Answer 11

of marriages that occur in a year for every 1000 people

Question 12

conflict and feminist theories

Answer 12

1. argue that institutional displacements are responses to changes with power relations between women and men
2. idea that power relations between women and men explain prevalence in different family forms

Question 13

canadian law and marriage

Answer 13

1. prohibits polygamy
2. marriage of convivence is illegal in canada

Question 14

polygyny

Answer 14

marriage of one man to several wives

Question 15

Sororal polygyny

Answer 15

one man married to several wives who are sisters

Question 16

polyandry

Answer 16

marriage of one women to several husbands

Question 17

serial monogamy

Answer 17

series of marriages to different partners (only one at a time)

Question 18

critique of functionalist perspective

Answer 18

1. ignores family abuse and sexual violence
2. not clear in explaining why families and society change
3. assumes society has one set of norms and values
4. not tolerant of families differing from traditional nuclear family

Question 19

conflict theory and families

Answer 19

1. focuses on inequalities within structures
2. negative influences affect power relationship and inequality
3. families compete with other social institutions on limited resources

Question 20

gender socialization examples

Answer 20

boys expected to be aggressive, girls nurturing
2. widespread acceptance that a women can only be fulfilled as a wife and mother

Question 20

feminist theory: role of gender

Answer 20

1. gender socialization
2. gendered division of labour
3. family relations (by extensions, society as whole) based on patriarchal system

Question 21

gendered division of labour

Answer 21

household:
- - women expected to care for children
workforce:
- - higher levels of pay in traditionally male dominated occupations

Question 22

symbolic interactionsim core criteria

Answer 22

1. focus on communication between couple
2. follows how they develop and maintain relationships

Question 23

symbolic interactionism understandings

Answer 23

1. seeks to
   interpret meanings of words and
   actions to understand relationships
2. individuals develop a sense of self/status/role through attitudes
   and relationships with others
3. develop a sense of the roles they are
   expected to fulfill

Question 24

symbolic interactionism: role taking

Answer 24

Putting oneself in another’s place

Question 25

role strain

Answer 25

sense of discomfort felt by one who
- having difficulty meeting role expectations

Question 26

role conflict

Answer 26

when a person is forced to
choose between the competing demands of
multiple roles

Question 27

problems mixed race people have

Answer 27

1. impossible to distinguish races based on genetic differences
2. lots of rape consisting of mixed race people
3. interracial marriage increased since 1871

Question 28

arranged marriages

Answer 28

focus on benefits to union

Question 29

love marriage

Answer 29

free choice emphasizes shared emotions

Question 30

marital satisfaction

Answer 30

status where partners are satisfied with one-another and their life

Question 31

social roots of martial satisfaction

Answer 31

1. economic forces
2. divorce laws
3. family life cycle
4. housework and childcare

Question 32

blended family

Answer 32

children of one or both spouses from previous marriage

Question 33

heterosexual

Answer 33

1. straight people
2. ideal standard in society
3. heavily influenced in colonization

Question 34

mixed union

Answer 34

couple which one partner is a visible minority and the other is not OR both are apart of minority status

Question 35

same-sex unions

Answer 35

Gay marriage and gay marriage with minorities

Question 36

reproductive rights

Answer 36

1. right to birth control
2. say in if they want children or not
3. right to an abortion (18th cent. - present)

Question 37

lone-parent

Answer 37

occurs when death of parent happens, or divorce/separation

Question 38

zero-child family

Answer 38

occurs when couple doesnt have children for biological, financial or psychological reasons