Unit One, Types of Families

Question 1

Define anthropology

Answer 1

The study of human behaviour in societies

Question 2

What do anthropologists focus on when studying societies

Answer 2

Culture (arts, beliefs, habits, etc)

Question 3

How do cultural anthropologists get first hand experiences

Answer 3

By living with the society

Question 4

Why do anthropologists study contemporary societies

Answer 4

to determine cultural patterns and regional, or national variations

Question 5

What does anthropology highlight

Answer 5

the diversity of behaviours of society

Question 6

Define ethnocentrism

Answer 6

the tendency to evaluate behaviour from the point of view of your own culture

Question 7

Why is understanding other cultures necessary

Answer 7

to overcome ethnocentrism

Question 8

Is all cultural behaviour invented

Answer 8

yes

Question 9

All cultures will eventually be able to do what?

Answer 9

Observe their own cultural objectivity

Question 10

Define sociology

Answer 10

The social science that explains the behaviour of people in different groups

Question 11

What do sociologists investigate

Answer 11

social facts

Question 12

What are social facts

Answer 12

the social sources of behaviour that are used to explain rates of behaviour

Question 13

What do sociologists focus on when studying behaviours of groups

Answer 13

patterns of behaviour

Question 14

Define demographics

Answer 14

statistics of groups basted off of studies

Question 15

How are demographics produced

Answer 15

statistics

Question 16

What are demographics used for

Answer 16

planning social policy, marketing decisions, etc

Question 17

Does sociology explain the behaviour of individuals

Answer 17

not really, psychology focuses on this

Question 18

Define psychology

Answer 18

Study of how individuals think and why they think the way they do

Question 19

What do psychologists focus on

Answer 19

how individuals think, and study interaction and influences on one another

Question 20

What do researchers observe in psychology

Answer 20

activity in brain, biological and chemical bases in brain

Question 21

What is personality

Answer 21

mental process and the characteristic patterns of motivation

Question 22

What are psychology studies used for

Answer 22

for macro studies of group behaviour, to help manager behaviour and motivate people

Question 23

What are the different types of families

Answer 23

nuclear, extended, sandwich, club sandwich, childless single parent, blended, communal, pretzel, gay or same sex

Question 24

Define nuclear family

Answer 24

husband, wife, children (natural or adopted)

Question 25

Define extended family

Answer 25

husband, wife, children plus one or more other relatives living in the same home

Question 26

What types of extended family are there

Answer 26

Sandwich generation and club sandwich generation

Question 27

Define sandwich generation

Answer 27

husband and wife looking after their children and their aging parents who need assistance due to illness, death of partner, etc

Question 28

Define club sandwich generation

Answer 28

adult children with their own children move back home. Grandparents often care for children. Sometimes the grandparent has sole custody of the child- “Grandfamilies”

Question 29

Define childless couple

Answer 29

husband and wife— this may be a double career family (by choice), an older couple whore children are grown, a couple who cannot have children

Question 30

Define single parent family

Answer 30

A) Mother headed— father gone b/c of death, divorce or desertion. B) Father headed—mother gone b/c of death, divorce or desertion

Question 31

Define blended family

Answer 31

can be very complex when children are involved Examples; A) single woman marries a widowed or divorced man B) widowed woman marries single or widowed or divorced man C) Divorced woman marries single or widowed or divorced man

Question 32

define communal family

Answer 32

a group of families sharing family responsibilities in a cooperative way

Question 33

define pretzel family

Answer 33

constantly changing, but endures an interdependence among generations

Question 34

define gay or same sex family

Answer 34

same sex couple with or without children

Question 35

What are the different technological and social changes affecting the family (in the past 150 years)

Answer 35

Industrialization, urbanization, size of families, mobility, gainful employment of women, impact of mass media communication, families have more resources, improved standards of education, adoption of labour having devices, Applying Democratic Principles to Personal Relationships, Growth of Welfare Services of Institutions and Government (look to note for more in-depth explanation)

Question 36

What is our definition of a family

Answer 36

A group or institution May or may not be 2 or more people living in the same dwelling .........

Question 37

What are Hordes

Answer 37

The first groupings of families

Question 38

What do hordes likely consist of

Answer 38

loses groupings of female and males as well as their offspring

Question 39

What were Hordes characteristics most likely similar to

Answer 39

Similar to that of the chimpanzee group

Question 40

What is different characteristically from Hordes and Chimpanzees

Answer 40

Hordes developed taboos against certain types of aggression and sexual activity

Question 41

What social organization used in Hordes

Answer 41

Most likely, social organization | So, the older, the more powerful, not just the more physically stronger

Question 42

Define Consanguinity

Answer 42

to be related by blood or by informal relationships (aka marriage)

Question 43

Define monogamy

Answer 43

Having one marital partner

Question 44

Is monogamy preferred?

Answer 44

Yes, typically among women

Question 45

Define polygamy

Answer 45

More than one wife

Question 46

When did polygamy start

Answer 46

when agriculture became established, and individual farmers could afford to support multiple wives

Question 47

Define patriarchy

Answer 47

Men were the rulers and decision makers of the family, in attempt to ensure their fatherhood and orderly inheritance of their property

Question 48

During the time of patriarchy, were women equal to men

Answer 48

No they were not, they had little/no rights and became property of men

Question 49

Why were arranged marriages formed

Answer 49

To ensure that young women would produce more children, women became an asset

Question 50

What are extended families when in the context of history

Answer 50

When married children would live with their parents because they needed land for agriculture, this happened in the patriarchal times

Question 51

Define clans

Answer 51

Many related extended families

Question 52

What are the two types of statements

Answer 52

Statements of observation, and statements of inference

Question 53

What are the three absolute criteria of statements of observation (there are 4 total but the first three are most importance)

Answer 53

Can be made only after or during observation. Must stay with what one has observed— must not go beyond. (I observed the man wearing the tie—his buying it, if he did so, was beyond my observation.) Can be made only by the observer. (The observational statements of another are still my inferences, assuming that I have not observed what he has.)

Question 54

If the first three requisite of observations are not met, what does that mean

Answer 54

it means that you do not have a statement of observation

Question 55

What is the fourth statement of observation

Answer 55

only approach "certainty"

Question 56

What are the 4 statements of inference

Answer 56

Can be made at any time Can go beyond observation— well beyond. We can infer to the limits of our imagination. Can be made by anyone. Statements of inference involve degrees of probability.