Families In Canada Unit Test 18

Sociology

"big picture", examines the structures and social institutions and its influences on us, how groups of people interact (racism, poverty, and homelessness)

Shirley Zimmerman's 6 Basic & Universal Functions of Family

1. responsible for reproduction 2. physical care for members 3. socialize and teaches skills, knowledge, values & attitude 4. controlling behaviour to maintain order 5. maintain morale and motivate, provide encouragement 6. perform the economic functions for goods and services

STAT

1/10 children in Canada now live in blended families

STAT

16% of families with kids are single-parented families

STAT

5% of kids live with a grandparent and 18% of Canadians speak 2 languages at home

Previous Families

Most commonly seen was parents under the age of 24 with multiple children

Today's Families

Most couples aren't even married and consist of 1-2 children and are above the age of 30

STAT

Most moms are around 30 and 2% of first time moms are older 40

STAT

The number of same-sex married couples has nearly tripled since 2006

Family Lifestyle Framework

also known as developmental theory, perspective to the lifespan of a family, every family goes through predictable stages by norm events, marriage, birth, death, each family faces specific task that are prerequisites to moving to the next stage

George Murdock

defined family as "a social group characterized by common residence, economic co-operation and reproduction.. includes adults of both sexes, at least 2 of whom maintain sexually approved relationships and one or more children who are born or adopted by the sexually active (1949)

Statistics Canada

defined family as "a variety of groups of people living in a common household that includes" (2006)

Anne-Marie Ambert

defined family as "family is a social group, an institution and intergenerational group of people related b y blood, adoption, marriage

Emily Nett

defined family as "family is any group of people considered to be related to each other by blood or marriage" (1980)

Family Studies

is an interdisciplinary study that integrates all three social sciences

Social Exchange Theory

looks at how social factors influence how we interact in a give and take relationship, a reciprocal element, benefits and costs are not facts but perceptions formed by people, stable when benefits and costs are equal

Functionalism/ Structural Functionalism

looks at how society is organized and how the social structures function in society, examines roles that individuals play, stable when everyone benefits, describe the most prevalent human behavior as the norm, functionalists use macro-approach to study society based on consensus

Women in Patriarchal Societies

men directed political and economic and cultural life, status of women deterioted, men's control of most or all property, marriage was a formal contract, today's society expresses a double standard characteristic of patriarchies, women to be inferior to men, as agricultural improved using better techniques, women's labor became less important, women were treated as property, girls were raised to assume patriarchial conditions and boys were raised with distinctiveness

Types of Families

multilanguage, blended, adoptive, same sex, religious, polygamy, and no children

Conflict Theory

sociological and political theory that looks at how power holds a society together, inequalities cause conflict between the classes, macro-approach that explains inequalities in society, it is used to criticize not explain, Karl Marx described the rich and working class in conflict, it is a natural state

Symbolic Interactionism

states people experience their social world and then define and interpret their expereinces, only after mental process of "meaning " then people act on it, symbolic interactionists try to understand the other's point of view before trying to explain their action or behaviour, John Gray Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus book states that gender different meanings to specific actions and words, micro-theory that looks at individuals

Psychology

study go the indiviudual and the human mind, looks at behaviour of people and why they do what they do, examines triggers for behaviours

Anthropology

study of human culture and the development of human species and traditions, practices that are specific to the culture