SOCI Chap 12 Family Exam 3

Downside of family life

1. Sibling abuse ( verbal, physical, sexual) 2. Child abuse ( physical, sexual- incest, by family member or caregiver. 3. elderly abuse ( physical, verbal, and financial abuse intentionally or unintentionally perpetrated against folks who are at least 57 yrs old). 4. Couples Abuse/ Intimate partners violence IPV, spousal battering, verbal, sexual, marital/ intimacy rape and sexual violence.

Malinowski ( functionalist)

1. The family is a universal human institution, 2. the family was a necessary institution for fulfilling the task of rearing children

Families after WW2

1. The model nuclear family ( attainable by a few). 2. Economic boom- migrated to suburbs and many women quit jobs and returned to full time domesticity. 3. divorce rate dropped, 4. fertility rates increased, 5. trends in families were ATYPICAL correlation of eco boom and diverse correlation of money and number of children.

Traditional family

1. heterosexual couple and biological children, 2. male ( head of household),3. Wife and children (dependents)

Families in Industrial Era

1. working family unit split into 2 spheres: Work and Home work. 2. men left home production for wage work in factories. 3. women's role was the unpaid management of the home ( including raising children). 4. mobility of families increased kinship movement.

Defense of marriage act ( DOMA)

1996 federally recognized marriages must be heterosexual. 2013 section 3 of DOMA was repealed.

Remarriage

79% men and 69% women remarry

Family

A family consists of two or more people ( one of whom is the house holder) related by BIRTH, MARRIAGE, or ADOPTION residing in the same housing unit. Source: US census

Marriages that cross racial and ethnic lines have become more common in the United States, although most U.S. marriages are still racially and ethnically endogamous. What factors might discourage exogamy?

Facing ostracism from within one's tightly knit community

Changes in U.S. families today

Increases in: average male married 29, women 27 age at first marriage. Proportion of young adult remaining single. Unmarried couples. Single parent families. Non-marital births. Wives and mothers working. Duel career families.

Domestic Partnership

Legal unions with select rights-varies by state.

Civil Union

Legally recognized unions explicitly intended to offer similar state rights and benefits as marriage- almost all rights are similar to marriage.

Talcott Parsons and other functionalists argued that the nuclear family was necessary in modern industrial society. Problems with the functionalist argument are highlighted in which of the research findings?

Mundurucu mothers and fathers live in separate homes, eat separate meals, and sleep apart, yet this arrangement is functional for this culture.

It is difficult to make generalizations about latino families in the U.S. because:

Of their diverse origins and geography

The most politically and religiously conservative states in the United States have the highest levels of divorce. How does the interview with sociologist Andrew Cherlin help explain this seemingly contradictory finding?

Personal economics, not personal values, may contribute to rocky marriages, and these states are relatively poor. The states with high divorce rates are relatively poor, and a sizable number of their citizens struggle to find jobs with decent wages. Andrew Cherlin explains that personal economics, not personal values, may contribute to rocky marriages. Couples who cannot provide themselves a middle-class lifestyle may begin to question the utility of their marriage (p. 483).

Kinship networds

Strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence ( marriage). Household operated like a small business. production and consumption.

Parsons (functionalist)

The traditional ( nuclear) family was a functional necessity because it fulfilled society's need for workers and child nurturers.

Step and Blended

a family whose members were once apart of other families

How did social scientists in the 1960s view the strong role held by women in many African American families?

as a negative characteristic that served to emasculate black men and ultimately increase social problems in African American communities. Social scientists like Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that matriarchy in black families undercuts the role of the father and leads to many problems. Moynihan also portrayed the matriarch as a stereotypically bad mother who is bossy and not feminine (p. 474).

Single parent

by choice, or tragedy, male or female. mother or father with children ( biological, adopted, or surrogate)

When a society has rules that limit marital choices to people within their own social group, such as within their social class or religion, this is known as:

endogamy

Nuclear family

familial from consisting of a father, mother, and their children.

The divorce rate in the United States ________

has been rising steadily since the nineteenth century

Polyandry

he practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously

Extended family

kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family.

Divorce

legal dissolution of marriage- 50% of current marriages end in divorce.

Cohabitation

living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning. 66% people in U.S. will live together before first marriage

Exogamy

marriage to someone outside one's social group

Endogamy

marriage to someone within one's social group

Same- sex

married/ non-married homosexual couples with/ without children biological, adopted, and surrogate.

Interracial

married/ un-married couples of different races ( with or without children)

Commuter

more typical for older couples . Both partners work and have separate residences in different geographic locations ( children gone)

Separation

mutual or legal

Sandwich generation

people responsible for 2 other generations- their children and their aging parents

Uncoupling

still married and living together but non-sexual relations

Kinship networks are ________

strings of relationships between people related by blood and marriage.

Cult of Domesticity

the notion that true womanhood centers on DOMESTIC RESPONSIBILITY and CHILD REARING- held today

Polygamy

the practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time

Polygyny

the practice of having multiple wives simultaneously

Monogamy

the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time

Miscegenation

the technical term for interracial marriage, literally meaning " a mixing of kinds," it is politically and historically charged- sociologist generally prefer the term exogamy or outmarriage.

Second shift

women's responsibility for housework and child care-everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes.