Ch 13 Family: The Doorway To Society

Question 0

What percentage of Canadians live in a census family?

Answer 0

84% Canadians live in a census family (married, common law, lone parent)

Question 1

Historically, who determined what a family was and who was entitled to benefits?

Answer 1

the state has determined what a family is, who is entitled to benefits etc.

Question 2

What is traditional family?

Answer 2

2 people of the opposite sex that has a father that works and a mother that stays home with the children

Question 3

What is a household?

Answer 3

people who occupy the same housing unit, they may or may not be a family

Question 4

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 4

huspand, wife, and children (separated from other family members)

Question 5

What is an extended family?

Answer 5

nuclear plus other relatives. Very common in horticultural and agricultural societies

Question 6

What is a family of orientation?

Answer 6

the family In which you were born And grow up

Question 7

What is a family of procreation?

Answer 7

the family formed when a couple have their first child. (Fam you form after marriage)

Question 8

What are the criticisms of monolithic structures? (Margaret Eichler)

Answer 8

Supports limited view of family life
Excludes hundreds of people
Tends to lead to a conservative bias with notions of “normal”
Assumes there’s only one standard family type
Unrealistic view

Question 9

What is serial monogamy?

Answer 9

More than one spouse, but sequentially, not simultaneously

Question 10

What is the difference between polyandry and polygyny

Answer 10

Gyny- men with more than one spouse

Andry- women with more than one spouse

Question 11

True or false, paternity could be questioned in a polygyny relationship?

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True or false, paternity could be questioned in a polyandry relationship?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

According to George Murdock’s study in 1930, in what types of societies is polyandry practised?

Answer 13

Places where women out number men

Question 14

During what century was polygamy practised in North America?

Answer 14

19th

Question 15

Where in do Mormons an The Oneida primarily live?

Answer 15

Mormons– Utah and Alberta

The Oneida– NY

Question 16

Although polygamy is illegal in Canada, where is polygamy practised today?

Answer 16

Bountiful community in BC

Question 17

What year did the Mormons first come to Canada?

Answer 17

1800s

Question 18

Polygamy is a crime in Canada. It is a criminal offence under section ___ of the Canadian criminal code

Answer 18

Poly remains a crime in Canada. It is a criminal offence under section 293 of the Canadian criminal code.

Question 19

Why is it still hard for the court to rule polygamists guilty?

Answer 19

Because of fear of infringing on people’s religious rights

Question 20

What is endogamy?

Answer 20

people who marry within their own group (own clan, own class, own race)

Question 21

What is exogamy?

Answer 21

people must marry outside group

Question 22

What is a system of decent?

Answer 22

the way people trace kinship over generations

Question 23

In preindustrial societies, what are the three systems of decent?

Answer 23

Unilateral: decent is traced to either the fathers or mothers side
Patrilineal: decent is traced only on fathers side
Matrilineal: decent is traced only on mothers side

Question 24

In industrial societies, what system of decent is used, and what is the exception?

Answer 24

Bilateral: decent is traced to both dad and moms family, the only exception is carrying on the last name

Question 25

Are true matriarchies real?

Answer 25

No

Question 26

What are the three types of residential patterns? Newlyweds move to...

Answer 26

Patrilocal: newly weds move into grooms parents home Matrilocal Neolocal: they move to a new place

Question 27

What is the functionalist perspective of family life?

Answer 27

Examine families in terms of the services they provide for the larger society Families are universal because they fulfill 6 basic needs See problems in families as problems with other parts of society

Question 28

What did Talcott and Parsons have to say about wives and husbands and what roles they play?

Answer 28

husbands instrumental role and wives expressive role

Question 29

What are the 6 basic social needs that a family is responsible for in a functionalist perspective?

Answer 29

Economic production, socialization of children, care of sick and aged, recreation, sexual regulation, reproduction

Question 30

What are the two dysfunctions of families in the functionalist perspective?

Answer 30

Emotional overload: members of nuclear families have fewer people to turn to when they have issues. (Higher demand on individual members of family) Isolation: members of nuclear families are also more overloaded

Question 31

What is the conflict perspective of family life?

Answer 31

Focus on the power struggles and inequalities within and between families The family is the foundation basis of women's oppression Women's social position declined with the emergence of industrial capitalism

Question 32

What perspective of family life believes that husbands are the capitalists and wives are the exploited workers?

Answer 32

Capitalist

Question 33

How do conflict theorists view family issues?

Answer 33

Class struggles and economic issues Family is a source of inequality and conflict Families perpetuate class and property arrangements

Question 34

What is the feminist perspective of family life?

Answer 34

Men and women's role are socially constructed, not biologically or naturally determined Rights and responsibilities should be equally distributed Women's subordination is rooted in patriarchy Family illustrates a classic example of patriarchal institutions

Question 35

What is Betty Friedan credited to be the starter of?

Answer 35

American second wave

Question 36

According to the feminist perspective, what is the proble, that has no name?

Answer 36

women doing all the housework

Question 37

How do feminists see family issues?

Answer 37

Hold abuse, elder abuse reflect patriarchal patterns of domination Perpetuation of gender inequality

Question 38

What do symbolic interactionists view families?

Answer 38

Focus on the construction and perpetuation of meanings in family lives Interactions between partners

Question 39

What does Peter Berger (symbolic interactionist) believe in when it comes to marital partners?

Answer 39

the interaction of marital partners create a shared reality, and is a continuous process Divorce is the opposite of this, must creat a new reality

Question 40

What does Jesse Bernard (symbolic interactionist) believe in when it comes to marriage?

Answer 40

Jesse Bernard- men and women experience marriage very differently. Contains his and her marriage eg. Husbands may see marriage positively and his wife may feel less positive towards to it. (Different perception) girls are taught intimacy discourse and assume responsibility for relationship maintenance

Question 41

How are family issues viewed according to symbolic interactionists?

Answer 41

They are perceived and defined depending on patterns of communication, the meaning people give to roles and events, individuals interpretations of family interactions

Question 42

True or false, functionalists look at what functions or purposes families provide for the larger society?

Answer 42

True

Question 43

True or false, symbolic interactionists are interested in the construction and perpetuation of meanings in family lives?

Answer 43

True

Question 44

Why do contemporary sociologists refer to families and reject the notion of family?

Answer 44

The motion of family implies that there is one standard type of family.

Question 45

What are the key patterns that persist within the rich diversity of family life experiences?

Answer 45

1. Mate selection/relationship formation 2. Have children 3. Many parents find themselves on their own later

Question 46

How have economic and legislative changes resulted in profound changes in family living?

Answer 46

Decreased numbers of traditional families and increased numbers of common law families, marriage and chikdbearing are delayed, more families without children

Question 47

What are some of the social causes of family violence and abuse?

Answer 47

Gender inequality can contribute to abuse of children and wives. Long standing acceptance of punishment of children

Question 48

True or false, according to the functionalist perspective, families are isolated units?

Answer 48

False

Question 49

True or false, the more a woman earns from her paid employment, the more house work men tend to take on

Answer 49

False

Question 50

What percentage of couples are in a conjugal relationship?

Answer 50

60

Question 51

What are the 4 factors that show that we do not freely pick our spouses?

Answer 51

1. Social class 2. Race and ethnicity 3. Education 4. Religion

Question 52

True or false, mixed unions may provide a mechanism for social integration and social mobility

Answer 52

True

Question 53

What did Rodriguez Garcia find with his study?

Answer 53

That visible minorities were more likely to marry whites even if whites were less educated and earned a lower income, and that mate selection follows patterns other than romance and love

Question 54

True or false, since 1959, the Canadian birth rate declined fairly steadily until 2009

Answer 54

True

Question 55

What was the first country to legalize same sex marriage? And when was it?

Answer 55

Denmark, 1989

Question 56

What year did Canada legalize same sex marriage?

Answer 56

2005

Question 57

What year was the divorce act created?

Answer 57

1985

Question 58

What year had the highest rate of divorce?

Answer 58

1987