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| Heterosexual couple, sex role stereotypes, kids, monogamous |
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| % of Nuclear families in U.S. |
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| Where do nuclear family ideals come from? |
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| WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) |
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-Togetherness
-Stability
-Loyalty |
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-Self-fulfillment
-Personal change/growth
-Urgency |
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Research Methods:
(6 types) |
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-Natural "field" research
-Survey
-Lab setting
-Case study
-Historical/cross-cultural analysis
-Longitudinal study |
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Function of families:
(3 aspects) |
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1. Legitimation of "responsible reproduction"
2. Provision of economic support
3. Provision of emotional security |
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Family Structure Power Base:
Patriarchy |
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| Male/father has power in society |
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Family Structure Power Base:
Matriarchy |
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Female/mother has power in society
(rare) |
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Family Structure Power Base:
Egalitarian |
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| Equal power between males and females in society |
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Family Structure Residence Patterns:
Patrilocal |
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| Live with husband's family |
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Family Structure Residence Patterns:
Matrilocal |
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Family Structure Residence Patterns:
Neolocal |
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Family Structure Inheritance Pattern:
Patrilineal |
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Family Structure Inheritance Pattern:
Matrilineal |
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Family Structure Inheritance Pattern:
Bilateral |
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| Husband/Wife to Son/Daughter |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Extended family |
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| Any other family members aside from nuclear |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Child free |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Dual-earner family |
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| Both adult figures work and are wage earners |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Step-family |
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| Secondary parental figure added that is not blood related |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Single parent family |
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Definition
choice OR
default
-divorce
-death
-desertion |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Gay parent family |
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| family headed by a homosexual couple |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Communal Living |
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| Living in one housing unit with several families |
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Alternative Family Structures:
Multiple Spouses |
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| 1 male with 2 or more females |
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| 1 Female with 2 or more males |
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Rewards and costs:
people will stay as long as there is profit |
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| What society says men and women should be/ how they should act |
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| sexual self-image (male or female) |
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| Male activities vs. female activities |
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| any group in which there is close, face to face relationships |
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distant, practical, unemotional relationships
(ex. business) |
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| An individual's idea about his or her worth and about what sort of person he or she is. |
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Term
| "Family Decline" perspective |
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Definition
| Points to a cultural change toward excessive individualism that they characterize as self-indulgence of baby boom generation. |
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Definition
ways of viewing reality
-observing, organizing, and interpreting what is seen |
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| Family Ecology Perspective |
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| How a family influences and is influenced by the surrounding environment |
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| Imitating the behavior of adults |
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| use of rewards and punishments which tend to reinforce sex role stereotypes |
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Definition
| Test out interpretation of sexual identity on peers using their feedback as a gauge |
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Agents of Gender Role Socialization:
Family |
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Definition
| Parents, siblings, and extended family |
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Agents of Gender Role Socialization:
Peers |
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Definition
People in the same part of life
("jump off a bridge" phenomena) |
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Agents of Gender Role Socialization:
School |
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Definition
Formalized
-includes formalized curriculum as well as interaction that takes place within the school. |
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Agents of Gender Role Socialization:
Media |
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Definition
All visual and audio communication
-Biases present in many formats |
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| Natural physical-biological environment |
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Definition
Climate, soil, plants animals, etc.
-human built develops when nature is altered by humans |
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| Social-cultural environment |
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Definition
| a human creation; consists of cultural values, cultural products (language/law), and social and economic systems. |
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Definition
| All the procedures, regulations, attitudes, and goals of a government that affects families. |
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| Family Development Perspective |
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Definition
| Emphasizes the family itself as a unit of analysis. |
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| Idea that family changes in predictable ways over time. |
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Stages marked by:
(3 aspects) |
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1. Addition or subtraction of family members
2. Various stages children go through
3. Changes in family's connections with other social institutions |
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| Challenges that must be mastered in one stage for a successful transition to the next. |
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| Order in which major transitions to adult roles take place |
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| Normative Order Hypothesis |
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| Proposes that the work-marriage-parenthood sequence is best for mental health and happiness. |
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Definition
Affects entry into the family life cycle
-ongoing change and development
-responsibility, decisions, financially independent |
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| Structure-functional perspective |
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Family seen as a social institution that performs certain essential functions for society.
-enable society to survive |
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Definition
Form of the family
-varies according to society |
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| Interactionist Perspective |
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Definition
| Focuses on interaction, face to face encounters, and relationships of individuals who act in awareness of one another. |
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Basic feelings people have about themselves
-abilities, characteristics, worth |
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| Sense of uniqueness and inner sameness |
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| What a given activity or statement conveys symbolically. |
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| playing out the expected behavior associated with social position/roles. |
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| Notion that social feedback shapes the self concept |
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| Application of economic perspective to social relationships |
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| Principle of Least Interest |
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| The partner with less commitment to the relationship has more power, including the power to exploit the other. |
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| Umbrella term for a wide range of specific theories that look at family as a whole. |
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| Combination of elements that are interrelated and organized into a whole. |
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| Not all family practices are good/contribute to well-being. |
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characterized by concepts linking psychosocial factors to physiology, genetics, and evolution.
-human anatomy, physiology and hormones affect most human behaviors |
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Beliefs that we have about family
-may not be accurate |
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what members of a society agree to be true
-may misrepresent actual experiences of families |
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| The opportunities one has for education and work, whether one can afford to marry, the schools that children attend, and a family's health care- all depend on economic resources. |
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| Measured by education, occupation, and income. |
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| A biologically distinct group |
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| Has no biological connotations, but refers to cultural distinctions often based in language, religion, foodways, and history. |
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| Hispanic and non-hispanic whites |
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| Cultural equivalent perspective |
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Definition
| Emphasizes the features that other racial/ethnic families have in common with the mainstream white families. |
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| Cultural Deviant perspective |
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| Views qualities that distinguish minority racial/ethnic families from mainstream white families as pathological. |
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Term
| Cultural Variant perspective |
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Definition
| Calls for making culturally and contextually relevant interpretations of minority family lives. |
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Definition
| Those in which some family members are American citizens while others are undocumented immigrants. |
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Term
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| Assimilation may vary within an immigrant stream. Immigrants with professional education and skills or from favored national origin may do very well economically and socially. Other immigrants may not have education/skills necessary and may experience downward mobility. |
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| One that maintains significant contact with two countries: the country of origin and the united states. |
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Miller's Typology of Urban Native American Families:
Bicultural |
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| Families that develop a successful blend of native beliefs and practices with those adaptive to living in urban settings. |
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Miller's Typology of Urban Native American Families:
Marginal |
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Definition
| Urban families that have become alienated from both Indian and mainstream American cultures |
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Miller's Typology of Urban Native American Families:
Traditional |
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| Families that retain primarily Indian ways in their urban environment |
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Miller's Typology of Urban Native American Families:
Transitional |
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Definition
| Families that tend to assimilate to the white working class |
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Definition
| White families of largely European descent |
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| White families of largely European descent |
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