Week 8- 12 EXAM 2 Flashcards
The Changing American Family Video: What things have changed in relation to the family?
- Portraying families white families on TV
- –> Today, TV portrays divers/multicultural families
- 2 same-gender couples not being able to adopt/mary
- ——>Today same-sex marriage is now legal/adoption for same-sex couples
The Changing American Family Video: What things have stayed the same in relation to the family?
- Gender stereotypes
- —-> positions/jobs certain people are “supposed” to have
What is men’s and woman’s spheres?
- It is the emergence of separate spheres
- woman and men have their separate lives
INDUSTRIAL IDEA
What are the spheres of men and women?
Men Speheres: Wprld outisde the home
Woman Spheres: Home, relatives, and children
What is the Companionship Family?
- An IDEAL type of family characterized by the mutual affection, equality, and comradeship of its members
What is Companionate Marriage?
- A view of marriage as companionship, a friendship, and a romance, rather than as a practical platform for cooperation and survival
How is marriage typically viewed?
- As a buisness arangemnt
- Women need financial security, exchange goods/ favors between families
What is the Birth Rate Plunge?
- Woman had an average of 1.8 children
- Both men and woman are delaying marriage
What is cohabitation?
- Sharing of a household by unmarried persons who have a sexual relationship
What were the effects of cohabitation ?
- Divorce rates doubled during the 1960s and 1970s
- Married woman continued to woke outside the home( “white woman”: POC were always working because of poverty)
Change in one aspect of families Marriage
- In 1960, 50% of all woman were married before they turned 21
- Today, less then 20% of woman are married before they turn 21
What is Implicit Bias?
- Attitudes or stereotypes that we develop toward certain groups of people can affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner
Is everyone biased?
- YES! even people who work on this, or think about it? why?
- —> People are biologically programmed to put things into categories; to determine if someone is safe or not safe, discriminate, or to not discriminate, make decisions, etc.
How can we overcome bias and stereotypes?
- Educate yourself
- Questioning your own biases
- Having discussions
- Perspective-taking
- Reflection Introspect
- Recognition
What factors impact families?
- Discrimination and Microagressions
What is Microagression?
- Backhand comments that people think are positive, but really are negative
- Hostile communication; derogatory or negative racial insults towards people of color
- daily occurrences; “put-downs”
What are some exampled of microsgression?
- ” You are so articulate!”
- Saying to an Asian person: “ Can you help me with this math problem?”
- “you are not like the rest of them, you’re different, you work hard”
- “Everyone can succeed in this society If they work hard enough”
What is discrimination?
- Targeting someone
- The practice of unfairly targeting a person/group of people diff. from other people based on certain characteristics
- Historical patterns of discrimination in the U.S that have become systematic forms of oppression