The Family And Intimate Relationships

Question 1

Families

Answer 1

Groups of people related by birth, affinity, or cohabitation

Question 2

Family household

Answer 2

Group of people who share a relationship by blood, marriage, or legal adoption living together

Question 3

Marriage

Answer 3

Legal union between two people, allowing them to live together and have children

Question 4

Nuclear family

Answer 4

Two or more adults living with one or more children

Question 5

Extended family

Answer 5

Two or more generations

Grandpa, great grandma

Question 6

Deinstitutionalization of marriage

Answer 6

Rules and norms around marriage are changing, and people are more critical of marriages role in society

Question 7

5 ways marriage is becoming deinstitutionalized

Answer 7

1) fewer people are getting married, choosing to remain single or cohabitate
2) the role individuals play in modern society are increasingly questioned
3) norms surrounding children are Changing
4) divorce rates in society are rising
5) diversity in forms of marriage are rising

Question 8

Cohabitate

Answer 8

Couples living together without being married

Question 9

Larger social changes that affect the family

Answer 9

1) rise in women’s rights
2) declines in levels of religion
3) increasing individualism

Question 10

Types of marriage

Answer 10

Institutional marriage
Companionate marriage
Individualized marriage

Question 11

Institutional marriage

Answer 11

A way to bind larger famalies and communities

Question 12

Companionate marriage

Answer 12

Based on bonds of sentiment, friendship, and sexual ties

Question 13

Individualized marriages

Answer 13

Each spouses satisfication is the focus, as is each spouses sense of self, happiness, and fulfillment

Question 14

Monogamous marriages

Answer 14

Marriages in which the couple relates with one another exclusively

Question 15

Polygamous marriages

Answer 15

Having or more spouse at a time

Question 16

2 theoretical traditions to family

Answer 16

Structural functionalism

Conflict theory

Question 17

Structural functionalism

Answer 17

Focuses on how the family functions to create stability and order in society

Question 18

The family plays a large number of roles . Roles fall into 4 main categories

Answer 18

1) reproduction
2) socialization
3) support
4) regulation

Question 19

Issues with the structural functionalism approach

Answer 19

Many feel this theory overemphasizes how harmonious families are

Question 20

Conflict threory

Answer 20

Concerned with the unequal distribution of resources

Does not see the family as harmonious

Question 21

Conflict theory believes that conflict within the family is related to _______. Who has it, and who uses it

Answer 21

Power

Question 22

Some feminist conflict theorists see the family as:

Answer 22

An area for gender based conflict

Such as who does the housework or family finances

Question 23

Age based conflict is prevalent in famalies due to

Answer 23

Power differentials between parents and children