Chapter 12

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

An intimate group consisting of two or more people who live together in a committed relationship, care for one another and any children and share close emotional ties and functions

Question 2

Incest Taboo

Answer 2

Cultural norms and laws that forbid sexual intercourse between close blood relatives

Question 3

Marriage

Answer 3

A socially approved mating relationship that people expect to be stable and enduring

Question 4

Endogamy

Answer 4

Cultural practice of marrying within ones group

Question 5

Exogamy

Answer 5

Cultural practice of marrying outside ones group

Question 6

Nuclear Family

Answer 6

A family form composed of married parents and their biological or adopted children

Question 7

Extended family

Answer 7

A family form composed of parents and children as well as other kin

Question 8

Patrilocal residence pattern

Answer 8

Newly married couples live with the husbands family

Question 9

Matrilocal residence family

Answer 9

Newly married couples live with the wifes family

Question 10

Neolocal residence pattern

Answer 10

A newly married couple sets up its own residence

Question 11

Boomerang generation

Answer 11

Young adults who move back into their parents home after living independently for a while or who never leave it in the first place

Question 12

Matriarchal family system

Answer 12

the oldest women control cultural political and exonomic resources and consequently have power over the males

Question 13

Patriarchal family system

Answer 13

The oldest men control cultural, political and economic resources and consequently have power over females

Question 14

Egalitarian family system

Answer 14

Both partners share power and authority fairly equally

Question 15

Marriage market (meat Market)

Answer 15

A courtship process in which prospective spouses compare the assets and liabilities of eligible partners and choose the best available mate

Question 16

Homogamy

Answer 16

Marrying someone with similar characteristics such as race, ethnicity, age, education, social class or religion

Question 17

monogamy

Answer 17

One person is married exclusively to another person

Question 18

Serial monogamy

Answer 18

individuals marry several people but one at a time

Question 19

Polygamy

Answer 19

A marriage form in which the man or woman has two or more spouses

Question 20

Polygyny

Answer 20

One man has more than one wife at a time

Question 21

Divorce

Answer 21

The legal dissolution of a marriage

Question 22

No-fault divorce

Answer 22

state laws that do not require either partners to establish guilt or wrongdoing on the part of the other to get a divorce

Question 23

Stepfamily

Answer 23

A household in which two adults who are biological or adoptive parents with a child from a prior relationship, marry or cohabit

Question 24

Cohabitation

Answer 24

An arrangement in which two unrelated people arent married but live together and have sexual relationship

Question 25

Dual-earner couples

Answer 25

Both partners are employed outside the home

Question 26

Fictive kin

Answer 26

Nonrelatives who are accepted as part of a family

Question 27

intimate partner violence (IPV)

Answer 27

Abuse that occurs between people in a close relationship

Question 28

Gerontologist

Answer 28

Scientists who study the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging

Question 29

sandwich generation

Answer 29

People in a middle generation who care for their own children and their aging parents

Question 30

Old-age dependency ratio

Answer 30

(Elderly support ratio) The number of working-age adults ages 18-64 every person age 65 and older whos not in the labor force

Question 31

Activity theory

Answer 31

Proposes that many older people remain engaged in numerous roles and activities including work

Question 32

Exchange theory

Answer 32

Posits that people seek through their social interactions with others to maximize their rewards and minimize their cost

Question 33

Ageism

Answer 33

Discrimination against older people

Question 34

Continuity theory

Answer 34

Posits that older adults can substitute satisfying new roles for those they’ve lost