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