Family

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

two or more people related by blood, adoption, some form of extended commitment, and who reside together

Question 2

Marriage

Answer 2

a commitment and an ongoing exchange. The commitment can include legal or contractual elements, as well as the social pressures against dissolution. The arrangement includes both instrumental and expressive exchanges

Question 3

Expressive exchanges

Answer 3

the emotional dimension of marriage, including sexual gratification, companionship, and empathy

Question 4

Instrumental exchanges –

Answer 4

the task-oriented dimension of marriage, including earnings a living, spending money, and maintaining a household

Question 5

Premarital sexual standards

Answer 5

– standards by which people judge the acceptability of premarital sex

Question 6

Abstinence standard

Answer 6

– the premarital sexual standard that allows no premarital sex

Question 7

Double standard

Answer 7

– the premarital sexual standard that allows premarital sex for men only

Question 8

Love standard

Answer 8

the premarital sexual standard that permits premarital sex for persons of either gender if they are in love

Question 9

Fun standard

Answer 9

– the premarital sexual standard that approves of premarital sex for either gender, even without love

Question 10

Homogamy

Answer 10

– marriage of persons with similar physical, psychological, or social characteristics. This is the tendency for like to marry like

Question 11

Heterogamy

Answer 11

– marriage between persons who are dissimilar in some important regard such as religion, ethnic background social class, personality, or age

Question 12

Mating gradient

Answer 12

– the lesser power of a woman in a typical marriage, partly due to her being younger than her husband

Question 13

Collaborative or role-sharing model

Answer 13

– model of task sharing in a family where both spouses spend an equal amount of time at both paid and unpaid work

Question 14

Complementary-role model

Answer 14

– model of task sharing in a family where the husband spends more time at paid work and the wife spends more time at unpaid work

Question 15

Double burden

Answer 15

– model of task-sharing in a family where typically the wife is doing the same amount of paid work but more unpaid work

Question 16

Nuclear family

Answer 16

one or two people and their unmarried children

Standard North American Family

Question 17

Extended family

Answer 17

nuclear family plus other kin

Question 18

Endogamy

Answer 18

marriage between people of the

same social category

Question 19

Exogamy

Answer 19

marriage between people of

different social categories

Question 20

Propinquity

Answer 20

spatial proximity

Question 21

Descent

Answer 21

the way people trace kinship over generations

Question 22

bilateral descent

Answer 22

descent traced through both the mother’s and

father’s side of the family

Question 23

patrilineal descent

Answer 23

descent is traced only to the father’s side

Question 24

matrilineal descent

Answer 24

descent is traced only to the mother’s side

Question 25

Patrilocality

Answer 25

married couple live with or near the husband’s family

Question 26

Matrilocality

Answer 26

married couple live with or near the wife’s family

Question 27

Neolocality

Answer 27

married couple live alone

Question 28

Gay and lesbian marriage = children?

Answer 28

lesbians 5x morel likely to have child, | live in 3 largest cities

Question 29

cohabitation

Answer 29

the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple 16% of canadian in common law fast growing family type since 2011

Question 30

4 stages of acceptance of cohabitation

Answer 30

Kiernan 1. prelude to marriage 2. cohabitation is probationary period 3. cohabitation is socially acceptable in norms of society 4. alternative or substitute for marriage

Question 31

Divorce

Answer 31

40% marriage end in divorce • Higher probability of divorce with early marriage • Higher incidence of divorce for re-married • Divorce occurs because exchanges are unrewarding before 1969: adultery, desertion

Question 32

Infedelity

Answer 32

– generally doomed to fail | - 45% of men, 35% of women, will if given opportunity

Question 33

oxorcide

Answer 33

murder of wife 1. leaving relationship 2. man thinks he's lost control

Question 34

remarriage

Answer 34

``` 80% of divorced remarry – blended families… • children of more than one family men within 18m, women 5 years - women have kids ```

Question 35

Parenting in Other Cultures

Answer 35

``` • authoritative parenting style is rare in non-Western cultures • obeyed without question or explanation • greater inherent authority ```

Question 36

Structural-Functional

Answer 36

``` The family performs several vital tasks: • (1) Socialization (2) Regulation of sexual activity • (3) Social Placement • (4) Material and Emotional Security • Society depends on families. ```

Question 37

Social-Conflict Analysis

Answer 37

``` Family perpetuates social inequality: (1) Property and inheritance • (2) Patriarchy • (3) Racial and ethnic inequality • Family plays a role in social stratification. ```

Question 38

Symbolic Interactionism

Answer 38

``` Explores how individuals shape and experience family life. • Family living offers an opportunity for intimacy. • Family members share activities and build emotional bonds. • Courtship and marriage may be seen as forms of negotiation. ```

Question 39

Feminism

Answer 39

``` Family perpetrator of gender roles • Rethink notion that families in which no adult male is present are automatically a cause for concern ```

Question 40

Future Change & Continuity

Answer 40

``` Marriage not likely to go out of style • Biggest change: liberation of gender roles and an unlinking of gender & caring • Women work and men care for children more ```

Question 41

Parenting Styles

Answer 41

- Indulgent – Authoritative – Authoritarian – Neglectful

Question 42

Risman

Answer 42

Study of 19,000 young people, 18y – 22y Wants to know if people who do sex are respected If women want a lot of sex, respect them less… yes or no?

Question 43

Risman conclusions

Answer 43

Egalitarian conservative – lose respect equality for men and women who have sex Egalitarian libertarian – don’t lose respect for either Traditional double standard – lose respect fir women, not men Reverse double standard – lose respect for men, not women

Question 44

Double ghetto

Answer 44

combination of working in pink collar ghetto of paid labour and domestic ghetto of unpaid labour

Question 45

Consanguine marriage

Answer 45

Extreme form of endogamy | Blood relatives marry each other

Question 46

Propinquity

Answer 46

proximity to who you marry, being changed by internet