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Sociology of Families Flashcards

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Refers to a group of people who are connected by blood, a sexual relationship, or the law

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Family

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Includes relationships defined by blood, affinity (affection), and adoption

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Kinship

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A socially sanctioned union that includes legal rights and responsibilities of the spouses to each other, their children, and the larger society. (In Biblical law its the consummation of a union of two hearts made to one to become a marriage)

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Marriage

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The process of parents voluntarily choosing to have a legal parent-child relationship with a child who isn’t related to them by blood

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Adoption

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A family with a step-parent, step-sibling, or half-sibling

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Blended families

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Determining kinship between generations through the mother’s line

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Matrilineal

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Determining kinship, names, property, and titles though the father’s line

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Patrilineal

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Existing in virtually all societies

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Universal

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The cultural prohibition against sexual activity between relatives

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Incest taboo

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Data gathered at different points in time

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Longitudinal data

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Having multiple spouses at the same time

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Polygamy

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One man having multiple wives

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Polygyny

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One woman having multiple husbands

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Polyandry

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A married couple and their dependent children

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Nuclear family

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Affection based on a deep emotional commitment

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Companionate affection

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The legally recognized termination of a marriage

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Divorce

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Allowed couples to divorce without having to prove that one of them broke their marriage vows or acted irresponsibly

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No-fault divorce

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Among those over 50 years old, the divorce rate has doubled in the last 30 years

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Gray divorce

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The degree to which people are connected to each other and to social institutions

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Social integration

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The cost of finding potential partners presents a barrier to forming relationships

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Thin market

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A sexual encounter characterized by a lack of longstanding commitment

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Hook-up

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Women’s reputations still suffer more for engaging in hook-ups than men’s do

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Double-standard for sexual behavior

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Living together with a significant other (not married)

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Cohabitation

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Marriages that begin with cohabitation are more likely to end in divorce

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Cohabitation effect

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Cohabitation encourages people to “slide” into marriage, rather than “decide” to marry

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Relationship inertia

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The merging of industry with social rituals surrounding marriage

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Wedding-industrial complex

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Turning weddings into events that have economic value because of the products and services we purchase for them

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Commoditization of the wedding

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Elaborations of older customs as businesses attempted to create new markets for their services and products

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Consumer rites

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Reflecting the attitude and assumption that heterosexuality is normal and natural (technically it is)

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Heteronormative

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A term which some prefer because it does not imply that a life without children is necessarily sad, lonely or “less.” (this is the most “I’m catering to your feelings” sentence ever lol)

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Childfree

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Births per woman

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Fertility rates

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A gendered labor arrangement in which one partner (usually the man) worked outside the home to earn money, and another partner (usually the woman) stayed at home to do the housework, childcare, and other household labor

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Breadwinner-homemaker model

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In which both spouses have wage-earning jobs

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Dual-earner arrangement

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Obtaining permission from participants in a study to closely observe daily interactions with others and the environment

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Ethnographic research

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Once the husband and wife came home from their wage-earning jobs, the wife bore the brunt of performing the childcare and housework

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Second shift

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A dynamic in which working men were able to use after-work hours to rest, recharge and pursue hobbies, whereas their employed wives arrived home and immediately headed to the kitchen to begin the evening shift of dinner, dishes, and laundry

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Leisure gap

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Leave from work for a period of time that may be provided for both or either parent

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Parental leave

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Provides protected, paid leave for women who have just given birth (or adopted children, in some countries)

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Maternity leave

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Provides protected paid leave for new dads

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Paternity leave

40
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Taxes are higher but the government provides more social programs aimed at supporting families and reducing the gap between the rich and the poor

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Social democracies

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Physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, and psychological aggression (including coercive acts) by a current or former intimate partner

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Intimate partner violence

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A complex phenomenon that arises because of cultural norms and social policies around gender, inequality, and violence

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Public health crisis

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Inequality rooted in social and economic conditions such as income and wealth, social mobility, access to affordable health care and childcare, and other factors

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Socioeconomic disparities

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Deeply ingrained in our social institutions and thus unlikely to change without large-scale efforts

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Entrenched ineqaulity

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Tendency of American politics to focus on socioeconomic extremes, leaving out the middle class

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Missing middle

46
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Being forced to leave the country (non-citizens usually)

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Deportation

47
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Barred individuals from seven Muslin-majority nations (even those traveling on legal visas) from entering the US

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Executive Order 13768

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A 1972 ruling which held that US women had a constitutional right to abortion access in the first trimester of pregnancy

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Roe v Wade

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Families in which multiple generations live under the same roof

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Multi-generational households

50
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A group of people who are responsible for the care of both their children and their elderly parents

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Sandwich generation

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