Lesson 4: Family Structures and Legacies Flashcards
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The standard sociological definition of family is given by
Burgess and Locke (1976)
A group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption, consisting of a single household, interacting and inter-communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister creating a common culture.
family
7 major family functions
- The economic
- The reproductive
- The regulation of sexual activity
- Socialization, especially the transmission of the culture to the children
- The conferral of status
- Provision of affection and companionship
- Child-raring
Family structure reflects relationships at the juncture of biological relatedness, marital and partnership
status, and living arrangements (Pasley & Petren, 2015).
fun fact :D
more stuff changes cuz we are more modern
leads to more family types
A family where one or more of the children has been adopted. Any structure of a
family may also be an adoptive family.
Adoptive family
A family where the parents are members of different racial identity
groups
Bi-racial or multi-racial family
: A family where the adopted child is of a different racial identity group
than the parents
Trans-racial adoptive family
A family that consists of members from two (or more) previous families.
Blended family:
An arrangement where divorced parents both have legal responsibility for their
children. Children may alternatively live with both parents or live with one and have regular visitation
with the other.
Co-custody family
A family member is separated from the rest of the family. This
may be due to employment far away, military service, incarceration, or hospitalization. They remain
significant members of the family.
Conditionally separated families
A family where Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles play major roles in the children’s
upbringing. This may or may not include those relatives living with the children.
Extended family
A family where one or more children are legally temporary household members. This
“temporary” period may be as short as a few days or as long as the child’s entire childhood. Kinship
care families are foster families where there is a legal arrangement for the child to be cared for by
relatives of one of the parents
Foster family
A family where one or both of the parent’s sexual orientation is gay or lesbian.
This may be a two-parent family, an adoptive family, a single-parent family, or an extended family.
Gay or Lesbian family
A family where the parents have immigrated to another country as adults. Their
children may or may not be immigrants. Some family members may continue to live in the country of
origin but still be significant figures in the life of the child.
Immigrant family
A family that moves regularly to places where they have employment. The most
common form of migrant family is farm workers who move with the crop seasons. Children may have
a relatively stable community of people who move at the same time - or the family may know no one
in each new setting. Military families may also lead a migrant life, with frequent relocation, often on
short notice
Migrant family
A family consisting of a married man & woman and their biological children.
Nuclear family
This can be either a father or a mother who is singly responsible for the raising
of a child. The child can be by birth or adoption. They may be a single parent by choice or by life
circumstances. The other parent may have been part of the family at one time or not at all.
Single parent family
: These families live in more than one country. They may spend part of each
year in their country of origin, returning to the country of origin on a regular basis. The child may spend
time being cared for by different family members in each country.
Transnational family
The parenting styles commonly used in psychology today are based on the work of
Diana Baumrind
a developmental psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, in the 1960s
Diana Baumrind
contributed by refining the parenting style (?) model in the 1980s
Maccoby and
Martin
a graphical representation of one’s family relationship and medical history. It records
family members and their relationships with each other. It also shows many of their physical and
physiological attributes through an elaborate system of symbols
genogram
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