Test 2: Families

Question 1

Family of orientation?

Answer 1

family one is born into

Question 2

Family of procreation?

Answer 2

formed through marriage, one you create (even through adoption)

Question 3

Margrit Eichler’s definition of family?

Answer 3

A family includes a combination of the following:

Socialization (of each other and children)
Emotional relationship 
Residence
Economics
Sexuality & reproduction

Or… SERES&R

Question 4

What does “SNAF” stand for?

Answer 4

Standard North American Family

Question 5

What is SNAF ideology?

Answer 5

a term coined by Dorothy Smith (1993)
Dictates that a NUCLEAR FAMILY based on heterosexual procreation is taken-for-granted, normal AND ideal (lines up with heteronormativity)
SNAF ideology is celebrated basically everywhere

Question 6

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 6

Nuclear family: A cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child. Idealized family model. Not dominant family model as only 31.9% have this family.

Question 7

SNAF as gendered?

Answer 7

The labour of social reproduction
childcare, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, emotional labour
Feminized
Men did less than half of the household labour that women do

Question 8

SNAF as racialized?

Answer 8

White is at the heart of the ideal family
Black children in Ontario “in care at 5 times the rate of their percentage of the population” (p. 192)
Watched more closely, punished more severely
Over-reported
70% of black children in care are there because of concerns about “neglect”. Can be tied to issues of poverty. One of the responses should be addressing the issues of poverty rather than calling surveillance.
Over-investigated
Longer stays in care (45% of children in care spent twice as long as white kids in care)
94% of social workers are white (cultural literacy that is missing)

Question 9

Monogamy?

Answer 9

When someone is married to only one person at a time.

Question 10

Polygamy?

Answer 10

The state of being committed or married to more than one person at a time

Question 11

Polyandry?

Answer 11

A form of marriage in which one woman is married to more than one man at one time.

Question 12

Divorce Rates?

Answer 12

In 1986, the Act was amended again to make “breakdown of marriage” the sole ground for divorce. Since then, the total divorce rate (to divorce after 30 years of marriage) has remained steady at between 35% and 42%.

Question 13

Gay marriage?

Answer 13

Canada’s Bill C-38 (Civil Marriage Act), 2005.

Redefines marriage as: “the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others”

Question 14

Labour of social reproduction?

Answer 14

The labour of social reproduction
childcare, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, emotional labour
Feminized

Question 15

Functionalist perspective on families?

Answer 15

four functions of family: sexual, reproductive, educational, economic. Each family member is seen as performing a specific role and function to maintain the functioning of the family as a whole.

Question 16

Critical perspective on families?

Answer 16

The family is often not a haven but rather an arena where the effects of societal power struggles are felt. Why are women expected to perform the “expressive” roles in the family while the men perform “instrumental” roles, and what are the implications of this division of labour? Critical sociologists therefore study conflicts as simple as the enforcement of rules from parent to child, or more serious issues such as domestic violence (spousal and child), sexual assault, marital rape, and incest, as products of power structures in broader society.

Question 17

Symbolic interactionist perspective on families?

Answer 17

family roles are socially constructed, symbolic, historically and culturally specific