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FAMILIES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
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FAMILIES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
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| relationships in which people may live together, form an economic unit and care for the young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group to which they feel they belong |
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| a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption |
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| the family into which a person is born (or adopted) and which early socialization usually takes place |
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| the family that a person forms by either having children or adopting children |
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| a family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household |
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| a family that consists of one or two parents and their dependent children; this type of family lives apart from other relatives |
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| a legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity |
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| a marriage between two partners, usually a man and a women (or same sex couples in some states) |
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| a practice in which an individual of one sex is married to two or more members of the opposite sex |
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| a practice in which one man is married to two or more women at the same time |
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| a practice in which one women is married to two or more men at the same time. |
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| a system of tracing descent though the father’s side of the family |
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| a system of tracing descent through the womens’s side of the family |
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| a system of tracing descent through both the mother’s and father’s side of the family |
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| a family structure in which authority is held by the eldest male (usually the father) |
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| a family structure in which authority is held by the eldest female (usually the mother) |
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| a family structure in which both partners share power and authority equally |
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| a residential pattern in which a married couple lives in the same household (or community) as the husband’s family |
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| a residential pattern in which a married couple lives in the same household (or community) as the wife’s parents |
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| the custom of a married couple living in their own residence apart from both the husband’s and the wife’s parents |
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| cultural norms prescribing that people marry within their social group or category |
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| cultural norms prescribing that people marry outside their social group or category |
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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES
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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES
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| the sub-discipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variations in family structure |
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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES
FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVES
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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES
FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVES
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| Functionalist Perspective |
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| tends to emphasize the importance of the family in maintaining the stability of society and the well-being of individuals |
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| according to Parsons, the father fulfills the instrumental role in the family while the fulfills the expressive role |
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Four major functions of the family:
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2). Socialization
3). Economic and psychological support
4). Provision of social status |
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Four major functions of the family:
1). Sexual regulation
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3). Economic and psychological support
4). Provision of social status |
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| Economic and psychological support |
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Four major functions of the family:
1). Sexual regulation
2). Socialization
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4). Provision of social status |
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| Provision of social status |
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Four major functions of the family:
1). Sexual regulation
2). Socialization
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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES
CONFLICT PERSPECTIVES
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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES
CONFLICT PERSPECTIVES
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| views that the family can be a source of social inequality and conflict over values, goals, and access to resources and power; |
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| Families are similar to capitalist economies in terms of male domination in a factory |
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According to some conflict theorists, the following factors may apply to the family:
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2). Childbearing and caring for family members at home may reinforce the subordination of women via unpaid labor |
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| Childbearing and caring for family members at home may reinforce the subordination of women via unpaid labor |
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According to some conflict theorists, the following factors may apply to the family:
1). Families are similar to capitalist economies in terms of male domination in a factory
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Theoretical Perspectives on Families- Symbolic Interactionist Perspectives
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Theoretical Perspectives on Families- Symbolic Interactionist Perspectives
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| Symbolic Interactionist Perspectives |
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| examines the roles that husbands, wives, and children play as a result of their roles as a wife, husband, or child; these individuals also tend to react to others’ behavior |
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The subjective meanings and everyday
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| Symbolic interactionists tend to focus on ___________ |
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Developing Intimate Relationships and Establishing Families
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Developing Intimate Relationships and Establishing Families
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| a situation in which two people live together, and think of themselves as a couple, without being legally married |
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| household partnerships in which an unmarried couple lives together in a committed, sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights and benefits as those accorded to married heterosexual couples |
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| the tendency of individuals to marry those who have similar characteristics such as race/ethnicity, religious background, age, education, or social class |
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| marriages in which both spouses are in the labor force |
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| Arlie Hochschild’s term for the domestic work that employed women perform at home after they complete their workday on the job |
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