Chapter 12 Flashcards
Nuclear/Traditional Family
family consisting of a mother and father and their biological children
Extended Family
familial networks that extend beyond the nuclear family and may extend beyond the home
Preindustrial Family
functioned like a miniature economy
Everyone worked to produce food, clothes, and other items the family needed to survive
Kinship Networks
strings of relationships between people related by blood and marriage
What did the Industrial Revolution create between work and home?
A division: men went to work and brought home money while women stayed home and took care of the home with no pay for their work
Is the traditional nuclear family a timeless concept?
No, it was created in response to conditions in a specific time and place (World War II economic boom)
Cult of Domesticity
females are domestic responsibility takers, take care of the house and children
How are gender roles attained?
They’re learned in the family and how the family can be a battleground for power over decisions about household chores, where to live, raising children, spending money, etc.
African American women and providing for their families
African American women have often taken a leading role in providing of their families which then undercuts the role of the father and ultimately leads to social problems
W.E.B. DuBois
argued that the high rate of female-headed families in the African American community was a RESULT of a racial oppression and poverty, not a CAUSE of it
William Julius Wilson
Showed that there is an outright shortage of employed, un-incarcerated black men with whom black women could hope to form a stable family unit
African American communities and kinship
African American communities tend to have expanded notions of kinship which is rooted in slave experience (family bonds formed with non blood relations)
