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Unit One, Types of Families Flashcards

1
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Define anthropology

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The study of human behaviour in societies

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What do anthropologists focus on when studying societies

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Culture (arts, beliefs, habits, etc)

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How do cultural anthropologists get first hand experiences

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By living with the society

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4
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Why do anthropologists study contemporary societies

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to determine cultural patterns and regional, or national variations

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5
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What does anthropology highlight

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the diversity of behaviours of society

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Define ethnocentrism

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the tendency to evaluate behaviour from the point of view of your own culture

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7
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Why is understanding other cultures necessary

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to overcome ethnocentrism

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8
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Is all cultural behaviour invented

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yes

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9
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All cultures will eventually be able to do what?

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Observe their own cultural objectivity

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10
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Define sociology

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The social science that explains the behaviour of people in different groups

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What do sociologists investigate

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social facts

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What are social facts

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the social sources of behaviour that are used to explain rates of behaviour

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What do sociologists focus on when studying behaviours of groups

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patterns of behaviour

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14
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Define demographics

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statistics of groups basted off of studies

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15
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How are demographics produced

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statistics

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16
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What are demographics used for

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planning social policy, marketing decisions, etc

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17
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Does sociology explain the behaviour of individuals

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not really, psychology focuses on this

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Define psychology

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Study of how individuals think and why they think the way they do

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What do psychologists focus on

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how individuals think, and study interaction and influences on one another

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20
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What do researchers observe in psychology

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activity in brain, biological and chemical bases in brain

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21
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What is personality

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mental process and the characteristic patterns of motivation

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What are psychology studies used for

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for macro studies of group behaviour, to help manager behaviour and motivate people

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23
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What are the different types of families

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nuclear, extended, sandwich, club sandwich, childless single parent, blended, communal, pretzel, gay or same sex

24
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Define nuclear family

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husband, wife, children (natural or adopted)

25
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Define extended family

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husband, wife, children plus one or more other relatives living in the same home

26
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What types of extended family are there

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Sandwich generation and club sandwich generation

27
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Define sandwich generation

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husband and wife looking after their children and their aging parents who need assistance due to illness, death of partner, etc

28
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Define club sandwich generation

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adult children with their own children move back home. Grandparents often care for children. Sometimes the grandparent has sole custody of the child- “Grandfamilies”

29
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Define childless couple

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husband and wife— this may be a double career family (by choice), an older couple whore children are grown, a couple who cannot have children

30
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Define single parent family

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A) Mother headed— father gone b/c of death, divorce or desertion.
B) Father headed—mother gone b/c of death, divorce or desertion

31
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Define blended family

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can be very complex when children are involved
Examples; A) single woman marries a widowed or divorced man
B) widowed woman marries single or widowed or divorced man
C) Divorced woman marries single or widowed or divorced man

32
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define communal family

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a group of families sharing family responsibilities in a cooperative way

33
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define pretzel family

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constantly changing, but endures an interdependence among generations

34
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define gay or same sex family

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same sex couple with or without children

35
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What are the different technological and social changes affecting the family (in the past 150 years)

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Industrialization, urbanization, size of families, mobility, gainful employment of women, impact of mass media communication, families have more resources, improved standards of education, adoption of labour having devices, Applying Democratic Principles to Personal Relationships, Growth of Welfare Services of Institutions and Government (look to note for more in-depth explanation)

36
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What is our definition of a family

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A group or institution
May or may not be 2 or more people living in the same dwelling
………

37
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What are Hordes

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The first groupings of families

38
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What do hordes likely consist of

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loses groupings of female and males as well as their offspring

39
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What were Hordes characteristics most likely similar to

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Similar to that of the chimpanzee group

40
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What is different characteristically from Hordes and Chimpanzees

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Hordes developed taboos against certain types of aggression and sexual activity

41
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What social organization used in Hordes

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Most likely, social organization

So, the older, the more powerful, not just the more physically stronger

42
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Define Consanguinity

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to be related by blood or by informal relationships (aka marriage)

43
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Define monogamy

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Having one marital partner

44
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Is monogamy preferred?

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Yes, typically among women

45
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Define polygamy

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More than one wife

46
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When did polygamy start

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when agriculture became established, and individual farmers could afford to support multiple wives

47
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Define patriarchy

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Men were the rulers and decision makers of the family, in attempt to ensure their fatherhood and orderly inheritance of their property

48
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During the time of patriarchy, were women equal to men

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No they were not, they had little/no rights and became property of men

49
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Why were arranged marriages formed

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To ensure that young women would produce more children, women became an asset

50
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What are extended families when in the context of history

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When married children would live with their parents because they needed land for agriculture, this happened in the patriarchal times

51
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Define clans

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Many related extended families

52
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What are the two types of statements

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Statements of observation, and statements of inference

53
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What are the three absolute criteria of statements of observation (there are 4 total but the first three are most importance)

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Can be made only after or during observation.
Must stay with what one has observed— must not go beyond. (I observed the man wearing the tie—his buying it, if he did so, was beyond my observation.)
Can be made only by the observer. (The observational statements of another are still my inferences, assuming that I have not observed what he has.)

54
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If the first three requisite of observations are not met, what does that mean

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it means that you do not have a statement of observation

55
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What is the fourth statement of observation

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only approach “certainty”

56
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What are the 4 statements of inference

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Can be made at any time
Can go beyond observation— well beyond. We can infer to the limits of our imagination.
Can be made by anyone.
Statements of inference involve degrees of probability.

Grade 12 Families in Canada (6 decks)

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