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Question 1

Household

Answer 1

Residential unit with one or more people living in the dwelling and sharing facilities.

Question 2

Role of state in Defining family

Answer 2

1. Legal Norms - Family based laws like marriage, divorce and childcare.
2. Moral Values- Shaping the ideas of what a family is and what it does/should be.

Question 3

Single Person Household

Answer 3

Adult lives alone based on choice, breakdown of a relationship or death of a partner.

Question 4

Couple Household

Answer 4

Two people without children who chose to remain childless, children left home or have not started a family yet.

Question 5

Shared Household

Answer 5

Unrelated people living together.

Question 6

Family Household

Answer 6

Related people living together.

Question 7

Family

Answer 7

There is no one definition for family. One defining factor of a family is having children.

Question 8

Foundational Definition: George Murdock

Answer 8

Family is based on meeting the following criteria.
1. Common residence
2. Economic co-operation and reproduction
3. Adults of both sexes and maintain a socially approved sexual relationship
4. One or more children (biological or adopted)

Question 9

Marriage

Answer 9

A legal union.

Question 10

Civil Partnership

Answer 10

Usually between same-sex couples and are given some legal rights.

Question 11

Partnership

Answer 11

A couple, living as married, but no legal ties.

Question 12

Common-law Marriage

Answer 12

Not official marriage but is co-habitation over a period of time that has legal ties.

Question 13

Divorce

Answer 13

A legal dissolution of marriage, again, in the U.S., is defined by state law.

Question 14

Factors considered in a divorce

Answer 14

1. Division of Assets
2. Alimony
3. Child custody
4. Child payments

Question 15

Nuclear Family

Answer 15

Consists of parents and their children.

Question 16

Isolated Nuclear

Answer 16

Family is not geographically near kin so must be socially and economically self-sufficient.

Question 17

Lone Parent (broken nuclear)

Answer 17

Single adult plus dependent children - resulting from the end of a two-parent family.

Question 18

Reconstituted

Answer 18

Families with stepchildren in which one or both of the partners have children from previous relationships.

Question 19

Single Parent

Answer 19

Single adult plus dependent children - was never a two parent family.

Question 20

Extended family

Answer 20

When more than parents and children living in the household.

Question 21

Vertical Extended

Answer 21

Three or more generations in the household.

Question 22

Horizontal extended

Answer 22

Within generation living in the house hold.

Question 23

Broadly Extended

Answer 23

Extended family is located in the same geographical area but the kin doesn’t live together.

Question 24

Modified Extended

Answer 24

Wider family members keep in touch both physically and emotionally but may not have frequent personal contact.

Question 25

Functional Fit

Answer 25

The family functions to meet the needs of society, thus as society changes the family changes.

Question 26

How does the family meet the needs of society

Answer 26

1. Produces socialized individuals
2. Stabilizes adult personalities
3. Value Consensus
4. Prepares individuals for their working role
5. Introduces individuals to religion
6. It controls and regulates sexual activity
7. Provides economically
8. Provides care
9. Provides social control of members for society

Question 27

How does family meet the needs of the family

Answer 27

1. Socialization
2. Economic functions
3. Emotional Support
4. Reproductive functions
5. Stabilization of adult personalities
6. Education
7. Sexual Functions
8. Welfare Functions

Question 28

Functionalism based on two main factors

Answer 28

1. A dominance thesis - the nuclear family is the main family structure in all societies.
2. Structural Convergence - family structures moved to the nuclear norm and thus becomes the primary family form.

Question 29

Arguments against the functionalism of family

Answer 29

1. Societies have changed so has the definition of family.

Question 30

Neo-functionalists

Answer 30

Look at the micro processes of family and how they function for society and structures.

Question 31

The family functions as a school for learning social norms for three reasons:

Answer 31

1. Rules transmitted and enforced by people with a deep, emotional connection are effectively taught.
2. Emotional closeness provides incentives to develop co-operative behavior.
3. Rule-learning indirectly through the child observation.

Question 32

Family Capital

Answer 32

The family enhancing a person’s ability to perform economically.

Question 33

Social Capital

Answer 33

Ones connections for what people can do for each other. Social capital is now economic and personal.