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| Two or more individuals who maintain an intimate relationship that they expect will last indefinitely and who live in the same household and pool their incomes and household labor. |
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| One adult, or two adults who are related by marriage, partnership, or shared parenthood, who is/are taking care of dependents (children, elderly, ill), and the dependents themselves. |
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| Conjugal (Nuclear) Family |
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| kinship group comprising husband, wife, and children |
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| A kinship group comprising of nuclear family and other relatives in the household |
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| Laws in which the male literally covered or encompassed the financial and legal identity of the wife. |
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| a laborer under contract of the employer for some period of time, usually four to seven years, in exchange for such things as ship's passage, food, land and |
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| Life at home and life at work. |
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| Develop industries in (a country or region) on a wide scale |
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| To make or become urban in character |
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| Familial Mode of Production |
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| A means of production in which the family produces nearly all its own food, makes most of its own clothes, and with the help of others, builds its own dwelling |
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| Labor market mode of production |
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| a means of production in which people work for pay and thus produce less for their own use at home and buy and sell more on the market |
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| Refers to the mechanism by which foreign nationals are allowed to immigrate by virtue of the ability of previous adult immigrants who gain citizenship to send for their adult relatives |
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| Describes types of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed "piece rate" for each unit produced or action performed. |
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| It hypothesized that the destruction of the Black nuclear-family structure would hinder further progress towards economic, and thus political, equality. |
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| According to the ideals of the cult of domesticity, women were supposed to embody perfect virtue in all senses. |
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| Should parents separate, the father would get the children. Now in this realm of separate spheres, children were considered people. All female children go with mother and boys younger than 7 would too. |
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| State has interest in children. Started to exercise this rule by taking children’s best interests into account. If parents were abusing their children or neglecting them or not educating them, the state could intervene and take the children away. |
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| Slaves were only individuals. They had no ties to any of their immediate family. |
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| Family that isn’t your actual family. |
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| Role of taking care of family in an economical way also in a structural way |
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| Says that all individuals are rational actors, we try to go around and find ways that most benefit us. Because of this, men tend to be more competitive and goal oriented than women, and women specialize in the nurturing capacities that make them good wives and mothers. |
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| Largest birth cohort in American history=baby boom. |
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| Idea that you had to earn a wage that was sufficient for a family of 4 |
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| Care work as a public responsibility |
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| Some argue care work should also be a public responsibility. Children can be considered public goods because when they grow up they will be taking care of us. |
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| Relationship-specific investment |
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| Time spent on activities such as cild rearing that are valuable only in a person's current relationship |
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| Motherhood penalty or “mommy tax” |
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| in a literal sense is international integration. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and functioning together. This process is a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces. |
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| When a company eliminates staff in order to make their company smaller |
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| Loss of skilled and semi-skilled jobs to developing countries where labor is cheaper |
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| Contingency workers w/o job security and benefits. No control over numbers of hours worked or work schedule (might not have 40 hours of work) |
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| Distribution of family income |
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| When a family pools their income together. i.e. the kids creating the lawn care service so they can pitch in for their parents. |
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Five separations of incomes in the United States.
Upper class
Middle Class
Working Class
Lower Class
Below Poverty line |
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| Ability to move from class to class. People who go to college have a much greater chance to change classes. |
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The amount below which families are considered to be living in poverty
Starts with the USDA calculation of an “Economy Diet”
Assumes that the average family spends one-third of its income on food
So the poverty line is the “Economy diet x 3” |
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| Act of middle class parents to enroll their kids in cultivating their culture. Multiple child activities orchestrated by adults; piano playing, play dates, baseball team, school band, etc. |
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| Accomplishment of Natural Growth |
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| Belief in children’s need to develop “naturally”- children create their own activities and “hang out” with kin; |
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| Emerging Sense of Entitlement |
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A result of concerted cultivation. Activities instill belief that children deserve adult attention and intervention
Children believe that they deserve to be heard and to be able to negotiate with authority figures
Children develop a level of comfort in negotiating bureaucratic institutions and working with professionals |
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| Emerging sense of constraint |
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Associated with accomplishment of natural growth. Comfort with peers and family-discomfort with outsiders
Children begin to feel both lack of trust and lack of agency with authority figures
Children begin to feel frustrated and powerless in the face of large organizations and professionals |
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