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| This style of live focuses on the self. Individuals pursue their own interests and try to develop a personally rewarding life. |
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| Focus is on the group. Will do what is best for the group. Interdependent |
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| Survey, define and give strength and weakness |
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A study where you give out questions from a questionnaire to a large random sample of families.
Strength: Results can be generalized to the population of interest.
Limitations: Limited Knowledge is obtained. Some answers may not be given truthfully. |
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| Observation, define & give strength and weakness |
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A small sampling of families/individuals are studied over a long period of time. The observer watches or participates in activities.
Strength: Detailed Knowledge is given
Weakness: Findings may not represent other families or similar families. |
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| Testing a hypothesis. Randomly assigning individuals to control (stay the same)/experimental (changed) groups. |
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| Functionalist Perspective |
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-Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales
-Instrumental Leader and Expressive leader in a group
-Breadwinner/Homemaker Family
-Wive working outside of home - Women lose expressive specialty |
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-Karl Marx/Randall Collins
-Power/Social Equality/Class Conflict/Social Changes
-How one group dominates another
-Two Sources of Male Dominance:
1. Physical Forces
2. Control of Economic Resources |
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-Gary Becker and Richard Emerson
-Human Beings are Rational: Decisions made on basis of cost and benefits |
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-George Mead
-Interpretation of symbols in social interactions
-There is not always a consensus about interpretations about symbols |
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| What is the connection between American Individualism and increasing tolerance of progressive views of marriages and families |
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| Families are rethinking marriage and parenthood. People have more tolerance of different views of what family and marriage is. |
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| A family that consists of parents and children. |
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| A family where son/daughter still lives with parents after marriage. |
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| The conjugal family (parents and children) + any other relatives living in the home. |
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| Characteristics of Families in Colonial America |
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| No lineages, Conjugal Family, Many public roles, Parents teach - Daily Life Skills, Home carries out other functions - hospitals, nursing homes, poorhouses, etc.Little privacy |
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-Lineage systems
-Europeans brought over disease, some were massacred
-Organized into Clans that provided social organization and governing
-Tribes married into others, formed alliances |
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| Modern American Middle Class Families 1776-1900 |
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-Marriage became based on affection/respect
-Wife's Role: Care of House/Children
-'Child Centered' - As a result less children, more care provided for each child |
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-Immigrants
-Living Between Modes: Whole Family Chips in to pool $$$
-Women take in boarders
-Housing shortage
-People lived together |
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| Implications of Changes of Mode of Productions for Families |
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1. Separation of home and work
2. Erosion of Father Authority |
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| Segregated Area for Mexican Americans: High unemployment and low income |
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| Asian Immigration Acts of 1965 |
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-Preferences towards those with skills or married to a citizen
-Skills based on the labor market in the US |
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| 1882, Chinese were not allowed to come to the United States till after WW II. |
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| Downward Extension of Adult-Life Experience;; Glenn Elder Jr. |
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| Children took on adult roles. The children contributed to the household. |
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| Breadwinner-Homemaker Families |
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| Dominant in the aftermath of World War II in the 1950s. Man works and earns money while woman stays home. |
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Children in Colonial America were considered to be
A. Economic Liabilities
B. Burdens
C. Economic Assets
D. Companions |
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Public: caretaking and dependency
Private: nurturing and intimacy |
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| Emphasizes development of one's feelings and emotional satisfaction |
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| Utilitarian Individualism |
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-Inequality between men and women
-Society is organized in ways where men are more privileged
-Concept: Gender |
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| 1950s: Married young, had more children than in any other historical eras in the U.S. |
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| During the Great Depression families stayed together why? |
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| May not be because of happiness. Might be because of the economic situtation |
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| Rise of Private Family 1990s-Present |
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-Prosperity
-Rise in permartial sex/divorce rates/marriage rates
-Women could not work after divorce
-Expectation of Emotional Satisfaction from marriage
-Lower Birth Rate
-Longer life expectancy
-More Private |
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| Depression Generation (1929-1930s) |
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-Decline in Divorce: Staying together for economic reasons
-Postponing marriage/childbearing
-Children contributed to income by working |
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-Birth Rate Decline
-Marrying later
-Increase in Divorce |
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