couples and family relationship

Question 0

adultery

Answer 0

the act of having sexual relations with someone other than your spouse

Question 1

accommodation

Answer 1

recognition of and respect for both similarities and differences between majority and minority

Question 2

androgynous

Answer 2

being high in characteristics of both masuclinity and femininity

Question 3

ascribed

Answer 3

a relationship that belongs to a patticular role rather than being a matter of choice

Question 4

assimilation

Answer 4

taking on the values and practices of the majoriy grouo

Question 5

blended families

Answer 5

families composed of parents who have divorced their first spouses, remarried someone else and formed a new family that includes children from one or both first marriage, and/or remarriage

Question 6

celibacy

Answer 6

living without sexual gratification

Question 7

childless families

Answer 7

families consisting of a couple

Question 8

cohabitating couples

Answer 8

family arrangements that resemble other forms, but without legalized marriage

Question 9

cohabitation

Answer 9

living together, usally refering to a couple with a sexual relationship

Question 10

cohort

Answer 10

a group of people, roughly the same age, living in the same historical time

Question 11

common-law union

Answer 11

a union of 2 parners in a lasting relationship resembling marriage

Question 12

Communal living

Answer 12

a group of people, who may or may not be related by birth or marriage, sharing financial resources and living arrangements

Question 13

courtship

Answer 13

a process of mate selection

Question 14

developmental task

Answer 14

a task that an individual is expected to achieve at a particular stage in development

Question 15

discrimination

Answer 15

negative actions taken against a minority group

Question 16

enclave

Answer 16

people of a minority culture who lives as a group within the larger society

Question 17

endogamy

Answer 17

marriage withing one’s social group

Question 18

extended family

Answer 18

the nuclear family and all other relatives

Question 19

gender roles

Answer 19

the socially approved ways of behaving as males and females

Question 20

homogamy

Answer 20

the tendacy to marry someone similar to myself

Question 21

household

Answer 21

a person or group of persons who occupy the same dwelling

Question 22

incest taboo

Answer 22

social ban on marrying someone who is too closely related

Question 23

intentional family

Answer 23

two or more individuals, not related by blood or marriage, who call themselves a family, and may share residence, finances, and a common lifestyle

Question 24

lone-parent families

Answer 24

families composed of a parent, most often a mother with a child or children

Question 25

mainstreaming

Answer 25

integrating children with special needs into regular classrooms

Question 26

marker event

Answer 26

an event that signals change in status

Question 27

monogamy

Answer 27

marriage to one person at a time

Question 28

monolithic bias

Answer 28

the tendacy to treat all families as being the same

Question 29

norms

Answer 29

ways of behaving that are typical of a certain group

Question 30

nuclear family

Answer 30

families composed of 2 parents and their one or more biological children living together

Question 31

passing

Answer 31

trying to hide the fact that one is a member if a minority group

Question 32

patriarchal

Answer 32

social organization in which the men in dominant

Question 33

patriarchy

Answer 33

a social system that advantages men and disadvantages women

Question 34

polyamory

Answer 34

having more than one romantic relationship at a time

Question 35

polygamy

Answer 35

marriage of one person to more than one person of the opposite sex

Question 36

prejudice

Answer 36

a negative attitude towards a minority group

Question 37

role

Answer 37

a function expected of a person who has a particular status

Question 38

same sex families

Answer 38

families consisting of two partners of the same sex and, possibly, natural or adopted children of one or both partners

Question 39

social scrips

Answer 39

cultural rules that tells us what, where, when, how, and why we should do something

Question 40

social time clock

Answer 40

socially approuved timetable for certain life events

Question 41

spillover

Answer 41

a situation whe family and work role or time demands interfere with each other

Question 42

status

Answer 42

a social position that carries a set of expectations concerning suitable behavior

Question 43

stigma

Answer 43

any quality that is seen as offensive by the majority

Question 44

traditional families

Answer 44

reflects the changing nature of canadian families in that people tend to use it to refer to their own families, or to the family type that they have encountered most often

Question 45

values

Answer 45

social principles that are accepted by society as a whole or by a group within that society