Chapter 16

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage or adoption

Question 2

Marriage

Answer 2

culturally approved relationship, usually between two individuals that provides for a degree of economic cooperation, intimacy and sexual activity

Question 3

Family forms

Answer 3

refers to the marriage pattern of monogamy or polygamy

Question 4

Monogamy

Answer 4

one spouse at one time

Question 5

Polygamy

Answer 5

more than one spouse at one time. Polygamy has two types,

Question 6

Polygyny

Answer 6

man with multiple wives

Question 7

polyandry

Answer 7

that a woman with multiple husbands

Question 8

Household

Answer 8

consists of people who occupy, the same housing unit, apartment, house

Question 9

Nuclear Family

Answer 9

family with husband, wife, children

Question 10

Extended family

Answer 10

all other relatives such aunts, uncles cousins

Question 11

Family orientation

Answer 11

family in which one grows up

Question 12

Family of procreation

Answer 12

family that is formed when a couple has their first child

Question 13

Function of a family

Answer 13

econ, recreation, socialization, sexual control, care for the sick and elderly and reproduction

Question 14

Conflict theory

Answer 14

family struggling for scare resources in time, energy, leisure, personal activities

Question 15

Symbolic interactionism

Answer 15

wife and husband view marriages differently, two separate marriages, his and hers

Question 16

Descent

Answer 16

descendent from an ancient family, ancestor, tribe or family tree

Question 17

Inheritance

Answer 17

property or wealth left by or handed down from parents, grandparents

Question 18

Filter Theory

Answer 18

mate selection through a filter based on propinquity, social background, physical attractiveness, compatibility and balance sheet

Question 19

Life Course

Answer 19

stages of our life as we go from birth to death

Question 20

Life cycle

Answer 20

the stages of marital life from courtship, marriage, childbearing and rearing to later years

Question 21

Life Span

Answer 21

longest life human can live, usually referring to a spices. more constant

Question 22

Life Expectancy

Answer 22

actual average life estimated at ones birth. More changeable

Question 23

Family Violence

Answer 23

violence related to family maltreatment, physical and mental abuse, rape, verbal threats, neglect. It usually includes spousal abuse, child abuse, sibling abuse and elderly

Question 24

Marital rape

Answer 24

forced sexual intercourse between husbands and wives. it consists of three types- non battering rape, battering and perverted

Question 25

Incest

Answer 25

sexual intercourse between parents and children, siblings or relatives

Question 26

Patriarchy

Answer 26

father driven household

Question 27

Matriarchy

Answer 27

mother driven household

Question 28

Endogamy

Answer 28

members marry within their social groups

Question 29

Exogamy

Answer 29

marry outside of group

Question 30

patrilineal

Answer 30

traced back to the fathers side

Question 31

matrilineal

Answer 31

traced back to the mothers side of the family

Question 32

egalitarianism

Answer 32

equally traced back to both sides

Question 33

Mate Selection

Answer 33

each human group establishes norms to govern who marries who

Question 34

Homogamy

Answer 34

Marring someone who has the same characteristics as you

Question 35

Heterogamy

Answer 35

Marring someone who is different from you

Question 36

Masculinity

Answer 36

Male Strength, Sexual vigor and dominance

Question 37

Femininity

Answer 37

woman like, submissive, stereotypical

Question 38

Marriage Squeeze

Answer 38

The marriage squeeze was originally coined to illustrate different patterns of marriage of men and women in the 1960s. In 2000, a new marriage squeeze was observed in the United States by African American women, who find it difficult to meet and marry desirable and eligible men.

Question 39

Two Separate Marriages

Answer 39

when couples view their marriages as two separate things

Question 40

Empty Nest

Answer 40

when all the kids have gone to college and the parents are left with nothing to do

Question 41

Family Structure

Answer 41

the way that each group is structured-- such as African Amer, Latino, Blended

Question 42

Divorce Patterns

Answer 42

half as many divorces as marriages, US has highest divorce rate, marring wrong person, unrealistic expectations, inability to handle, higher social tolerance, wife earns more, male does less in house, wife health is poorer than her husband's, more wife does in house, less divorce

Question 43

Bargaining power

Answer 43

Bargaining power is the relative ability of parties in a situation to exert influence over each other.

Question 44

Spousal abuse

Answer 44

equally likely to attack each other

Question 45

Battering Rape

Answer 45

sex with intentional physical pain on spouse

Question 46

Non-battering rape

Answer 46

sex with no intrusion to hurt spouse

Question 47

Perverted Rape

Answer 47

unusual sexual act due to anger or hostility