Chapter 11 - Family

Question 1

What is a family?

Answer 1

A group of people who take responsibility for meeting one another’s needs.

Question 2

A group of people who take responsibility for meeting one another’s needs.

Answer 2

Family

Question 3

How do family and change interact?

Answer 3

People called family, family needs change over time due to the social environment

Question 4

What is the ‘nuclear family’?

Answer 4

Parents and their children

Question 5

Parents and their children are called what?

Answer 5

Nuclear family

Question 6

If someone isn’t legally connected to you, name some things they cannot do in relation to you?

Answer 6

Cannot make medical decisions
Cannot be economically responsible
Cannot declare a dependent on taxes

Question 7

What is the legal definition of family?

Answer 7

A group of people related by birth, marriage, adoption, or residing together

Question 8

A group of people related by birth, marriage, adoption, or residing together

Answer 8

Family (legally)

Question 9

Legally, what rule is in place to ensure individuals aren’t counted twice?

Answer 9

A family must all live in the same household.

Question 10

What type of approach suggests we use family as a verb?

Answer 10

A social construction approach.

Question 11

A social construction approach suggests what about family?

Answer 11

That we use family as a verb.

Question 12

What does it mean to be ‘institutionalized’?

Answer 12

Encoded into laws, policies, and is widely accepted in practices.

Question 13

Encoded into laws, policies, and is widely accepted in practices.

Answer 13

Institutionalized

Question 14

What is the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?

Answer 14

A 1996 policy that defined marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman. It allowed states not to recognize same-sex marriages.

Question 15

A 1996 policy that defined marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman. It allowed states not to recognize same-sex marriages.

Answer 15

Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

Question 16

Obergefell v. Hodges did what?

Answer 16

It was a supreme court ruling that overturned DOMA in 2015. It stated that states must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Question 17

It was a supreme court ruling that overturned DOMA in 2015. It stated that states must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Answer 17

Obergefell v. Hodges

Question 18

Name a specific type of early marriage

Answer 18

It was a bond between two people in hunter-gatherer groups. It was used to establish friendly relationships and encourage cooperation.

Question 19

What is a ‘family economy’?

Answer 19

A situation where families create the goods they consume rather than buying them

Question 20

A situation where families create the goods they consume rather than buying them

Answer 20

family economy

Question 21

What is ‘coverture’?

Answer 21

A legal doctrine in which wives’ standing was subsumed into their husbands. IE: only allowed men to own property and sign contracts.

Question 22

A legal doctrine in which wives’ standing was subsumed into their husbands. IE: only allowed men to own property and sign contracts.

Answer 22

coverture

Question 23

What is ‘reproductive labor’?

Answer 23

Creating and raising a family

Question 24

What is ‘productive labor’?

Answer 24

Creating goods to trade or sell

Question 25

Reproductive and productive labor generally occurred where prior to industrialization?

Answer 25

At Home

Question 26

What is the ‘private sphere’?

Answer 26

At home - domesticity, where women were generally specialized

Question 27

What is the ‘public sphere’?

Answer 27

At work - breadwinning, where men were generally specialized

Question 28

What is ‘companionate marriage’?

Answer 28

A partnership based on romantic love.

Question 29

What gave rise to companionate marriage?

Answer 29

When childhood began to be valued and private life concentrated on the nuclear family.

Question 30

Why did intimate relationships become popular in the early 1900s?

Answer 30

Popularity of the automobile, birth control, and that many men were leaving for war.

Question 31

What is a ‘family wage’?

Answer 31

When one person (white men in unions) could support their entire family by working, allowing their wife to stay home.

Question 32

What produced the presence of a family wage after WW II?

Answer 32

The economic boom that resulted from government veteran aid bills.

Question 33

How did family wage affect the public and private spheres in the 1950s?

Answer 33

With the man able to make enough for the entire family, he was mainly kept to the public sphere while the wife was kept in the private sphere.

Question 34

What does the ‘ideal family’ from the 1950s forget about?

Answer 34

The fact that non-heterosexuals were kept in the closet and that families of color were oppressed in both rights and economic opportunities.

Question 35

What were the major events that happened in the 1960s and 1970s?

Answer 35

Substantial social upheaval due to feminist, civil rights movement and sexual revolution.

Question 36

What happened when the US deindustrialized in the 1970s and 1980s?

Answer 36

Family wage was destroyed, forcing many women in the public sphere.

Question 37

What is the ‘stalled revolution’?

Answer 37

When women were forced into the public sphere, but men didn’t also shift into the private sphere.

Question 38

What did the stalled revolution lead to?

Answer 38

Increases in divorce rates, single mothers, step families, etc.

Question 39

What are ‘cohabitating couples’?

Answer 39

Those living together but unmarried

Question 40

In modern times, marriage has become a class luxury. What does this mean?

Answer 40

Individuals now generally need financial security before entering marriage, rather than marrying first, then figuring out finances.

Question 41

What has happened to single motherhood in recent years?

Answer 41

It’s become more accepted in society as 40% of babies in the US are born to single mothers.