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| two or more persons, including the householder, who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption, and who live together as one household. |
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| What is the function of family? |
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1. provide a source of meaningful, intimate relationships.
2. assign social roles and statuses.
3. are an important source of socialization.
4. are units of economic consumption and cooperation. |
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Shift away from the family as the center of education, religious training, and career preparation associated with industrialization.
Decline in early marriage.
Increased marital dissolution.
Growing tendency to never marry.
Increased value placed on individualism. |
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| How do families function? |
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| Social institutions, like the family, are structured to maintain stability and order in society (structural functionalism). |
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Current estimates and trends of:
3. Divorce |
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1 out of every 2 marriages will end in divorce.
Steady increase in divorce rates over past 100 years until about 1980 when rates leveled off and even declined a little. Rates today steady. |
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| family unit consisting of at least one parent and one child. |
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| family unit consisting of the parent-child nuclear family and other relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. |
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| As a unit of economic cooperation the family traditionally divides its lines according to the sex and gender of family members. |
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rules may be less formal – but typically in US people still marry within:
Social class
Religion
Race and ethnicity
Education level
Similar value systems |
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| marrying outside social group – typically outside family (sometimes clan or village). |
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| examines the family as a social institution, and as a socializing agent. |
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Different notions of “family” worldwide.
Demographic characteristics of families.
Diversity of family forms in contemporary societies- race and social class.
Effect of social change on the family.
Interactions of the family with other social organizations. |
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Interactions between family members.
Division of household labor.
Meaning ascribed to relationships and dynamics between family members. |
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| Decline in separate spheres due to: |
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Changing and broadening attitudes about gender roles.
Increased female participation in the work force.
Increase and acceptance of alternative types of family. |
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| Influence of other social institutions on the family: |
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| Variable access to achieve marriage causes |
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| 90% of poor, unmarried parents want to marry yet only 10% will actually marry. |
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| Why are poor Black couples are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. |
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Non-marital births
Fear of divorce
Desire to “do things right” and be “set” before marriage |
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| Cohabitors tend to be/have: |
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Less educated
Lower socioeconomic status
More liberal
Less religious
More egalitarian
Lived without both parents growing-up
Less committed
More violent
40% of Latino(a)s and 45% of Blacks and Whites cohabit |
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| Cohabiting Relationships: |
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Not fully institutionalized
Most end in one year, over 90% end by 5th year.
Most end by dissolution rather than marriage.
40% involve children
Cohabiting results in less stable marriages.
Less partner interaction
Less commitment
Less satisfaction |
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| Factors contributing to divorce: |
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Being Black
Having low levels of education
Marrying before age 23
Shifting gender roles
Kids
Having a parent who divorced
More tolerant attitude toward divorce
Economy |
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More psychological distress
Poorer self-concepts
Lower levels of well-being
Less happiness
More social isolation
Less satisfying sex lives
More negative life events
Greater risk of mortality
More health problems
More difficulty raising children
Three times more likely than married people to commit suicide
Greater financial stress |
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