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| step family, step mother, friend,etc. Takes longer to develop |
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| mother,father,etc. Developed from womb. Easier to except because blood related. |
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| major way how power and authority are determined is through |
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| • income and occupation: The higher the income and the better the occupation, the more power you have in the household. |
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| different living arrangements between elderly men and elderly women |
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| women outlive men- Live with children, living alone, living with other family members, living with a spouse. |
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| when asked most of us categorize our class as |
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| middle class or working class |
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| racial boundaries in our society have become |
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| what does it take to establish a relationship with kin (3 things referred to) |
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| Talk to everyday, giving/asking for support, maintaining relationship |
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| most important 20th century development in family |
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| women working outside of home |
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| know how social class is defined |
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| • An ordering of all persons in a society according to their degrees of economic resources, prestige, and privilege |
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| women who leave their home country bc its disadvantaged and they work and send money home |
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| women around the world are caretakers of society and when mothers are leaving countries to come here other countries are experiencing cardrains (how related to transnational mother hood)) |
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| how does cherlin describe step families (as an ______ institution) |
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| incomes for less educated males have |
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| decreased, while it has increased for educated men |
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| what factors cause grandparenthood to become a distinct stage of life now |
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| Older People are living longer, making more money, Living more independently |
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| know how life chances are defined and what they are(can be affective pos. or neg |
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| resources and opportunities that people have to provide themselves with material goods and favorable living conditions; can be negatively affected by race |
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| asian american, hispanic, african american, indian american |
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| women and male female gap slowly closing |
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| lessening of difference is more b/c of male income decrease rather than females income inc. |
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| what does it take for a stepchild to consider a stepparent a “real” parent(has to do with age) |
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• Transitional Period
• First 2 to 4 years
• Stepparent is an outsider
• Affinity seeking – the stepparent thinks he or she can immediately assume the role of the other parent without changing anything
• Polite outsider – don’t want to get involved with their spouse’s children to be polite
• Young children more accepting, adolescents/teens more resistant
• Goal is to understand boundaries
• Stabilization Period
• Stepparent role includes:
• Warmth and support for stepchildren
• Little disciplining
• Supporting biological parent |
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| what is intimacy at a distance? |
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| Living separately from kin but still remaining emotionally intimate with one another |
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| How is upper class defined |
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• Amassed lots of wealth, privilege, and prestige
• Own large spacious home, expensive clothing and furnishings, and have substantial investment holdings
• Cultural and social elites
• Husbands are business owners or upper management of large corporations, banks, or law firms
• Wives do not work, but maintain ties to wealthy kin |
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| how is middle class defined? |
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• Secure and comfortable incomes
• Live well above the subsistence/poverty level
• Can afford a nice home, cars, college education, family vacation
• Both spouses have college degrees and work
• Husbands hold higher paying jobs (i.e. lawyer, pharmacist, engineer)
• Wives work as professionals (i.e. nurses, teachers)
• Jobs include “fringe benefits” (health care, paid vacations, sick leave, retirement) |
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| how is working class defined? |
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• Provide reliable incomes for minimal needs and a modest lifestyle
• Can afford 1 or 2 cars, modest home or apartment, state or community college for children
• Spouses have little or no college
• Husbands hold factory jobs, construction, manual jobs
• Wives work in clerical or service positions
• More vulnerable to layoffs/periods of unemployment
• Union workers
• Less likely to have fringe benefits |
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| how is lower class defined? |
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• Cannot provide reliable incomes
• Termed the “working poor”
• Low paying jobs, unskilled work
• Frequently unemployed
• Live in substandard housing |
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• “Whiteness” as Ethnicity
• Whites make up the majority group in the US population
• Is “white” an ethnicity?
• “Whiteness” is a social construction
• Nobody is “white” – there is always a flesh tone in the coloring |
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| know african american families |
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• 1960s barriers were lowered and economy boomed
• 1970s economic slowdown hurt men more than women
• Less educated jobs not available to African American men
• Women started in service jobs
• Men and women reluctant to marry
• Economics/steady jobs played a significant role in their family formation
• Vertical family values – aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, grandparents, etc
• African Americans and the Decline in Marriage
• Occurring among whites but less dramatically
• Influence of violence and drugs on male population
• Environmental effects
• Being discriminated against or affected by others’ prejudiced
• Income matters!!!
• Shortage of employed black men due to environmental affects
• Strengths of black families are often overlooked
• Kin network more important than marital ties
• African American Families: Gender and Black Families
• Intersectionality – extent to which black women’s lives are affected by overlapping systems of class, racial, and gender-based disadvantages
• Black women face greater disadvantage than all men
• Since 1960s “black middle class” has expanded greatly
• Helps African Americans prosper
• Today’s black middle class tend to live in neighborhoods with less crime/poverty and with other middle class families |
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• Mexican American Families
• Immigration plays an important role
• “Familistic” values – marry at young ages, two parents, breadwinner/homemaker model
• Horizontal family values – many brothers and sisters, cousin, helping each other out
• Puerto Rican Families
• All Puerto Ricans are US citizens
• Most economically disadvantaged of the major Hispanic groups
• 2nd highest percentage of children born out of wedlock (African Americans have highest), abundance of cohabiting couples,
• Cuban Families
• 1st wave came for political asylums, not jobs
• “cream of the crop” of Cuba – 1st wave of people to come over
• They were able to assimilate in US very easily (because of light skin, hair)
• Now days, Cuban immigrants trying to come to US have worse quality of life – want to make better life in US
• Tend to live in immigrant enclaves – large, dense, single-ethnic group, self-sufficient communities (Cuban buying blocks/neighborhood, have restaurant, housing there = forms an ongoing support system)
• Cubans most prosperous out of immigrant group because of enclaves |
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• As a group, they emphasize interdependence among kin/relatives more than individualism
• Greater emphasis on family loyalty and service to parents than Western cultures
• Subsequent generations assimilate more and face “bi-cultural” conflict
• Business ownership and pooling of funds
• Social capital- the resources a person can access through his/her relationships with others
• “Rotating credit associations” – Chinatown
• Asian families are pretty prosperous in the US |
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• Kinship organization and political organization
• Extended family kinship allowed for more relatives than European kinship systems
• Kinship/tribal ties create identity
• More about tribe than blood line
• Economically disadvantaged race/ethnic group
• Little research done
• Intermarriage makes it more difficult – often forced to intermarry within reservation
• Large group of American Indian population out there but only 1/3rd are claiming themselves as American Indian |
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| Most research shows that the best situation for children |
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| 2 parent household that are not divorced |
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| What are server sector jobs? |
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| (service economy); workers who provide personal service (waitress,etc.) |
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| what is Intergenerational solidarity (includes 3 things) |
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• Characteristics of family relationships that knit the generations together
• Contact – How frequently parents and children see each other and are in touch (electronically or by phone)
• Affinity – How emotionally close parents and children feel and how much they agree on value, attitudes, and beliefs
• Assistance – Amount of assistance, either time, goods, or money, that parents and children provide each other |
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| Women who are employed have more... |
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| have more decision making power because they are bringing in an income |
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| 3 diff. ways couples categorize social class |
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| status-borrowing, independent, shared |
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| what is status-borrowing model? |
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| oldest model – around breadwinner/homemaker model; wife borrows status of husband occupation |
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| what is independent model? |
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| define status by both wife and husband occupation; refer to social class independently |
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| what is the status-sharing model? |
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| couple shares occupation together; “we’re a middle class household” |
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| ethinic/ immigrant enclave (in what group) |
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| cuban american families; • immigrant enclaves – large, dense, single-ethnic group, self-sufficient communities (Cuban buying blocks/neighborhood, have restaurant, housing there = forms an ongoing support system) |
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| how do grandparents assist their adult children |
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| They supply them with money, shelter, support. Take care of their grandchildren |
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| Ability to force a person to do something against his/her will |
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| how is authority defined? |
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| Acknowledged right to supervise and control other’s behavior |
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| in todays society for economic happiness you need to maintain |
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| • dual income household- both parties are working and bringing home an income |
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| Flex time – policy that allows employees to choose when they will begin and end their working hours |
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| • status group – group of people who share a common style of life and who identify with one another; differs from occupation to occupation; helps with certain privileges |
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| What is transnational mothers is? |
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| women who leave their home country bc its disadvantaged and they work and send money home |
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| Role overload – having too many roles with conflicting demands |
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| – stressful events on one part of a person’s daily life often spill over into other parts |
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| it is harder to accept stepfamilies at what age? |
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| adolescent; • harder to except step parents; adolescent years; children are young easier to except step parents; older easier also |
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| Husbands status within a family is defined mainly by their .. |
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