Sociology Final: Part 3 Chap. 11
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When 2 or more people live together and have a legally or normatively recognized relationship
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Family
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physical or sexual abuse by one family member against the other
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domestic violence
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religious, legal, cultural authorities
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marriages legitimized by
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children seen as economic cost rather than wage-earning benefits
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explanation for declining fertility rates in modern society
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in pre-industrial society, this marriage pattern was most common
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polygyny
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in post-industrial society, serial monogamy describes this
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divorce and remarriage
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marriage limited to partners who are members of the same social group or caste are referred to
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endogamous
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in 2010, percent of new marriages were between spouses of different races or ethnicities
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15
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racial group, most likely to marry outside their race or ethnicity
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Asians
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US primary caregivers
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parents or stepparents
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social groups consisting of one or more parents, children, and other kin, often spanning several generations, living in the same household
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extended families
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families that have parents living with biological children apart from other kin
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nuclear
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in 2013, the percentage of children in single-parent households
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28
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number of same-sex households raising children
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115,000
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Talcott Parsons describes the family as a
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factory of personalities
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phenomenon which nuclear family supports adult family members emotionally
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personality stabilization
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exceeds that of most other modern societies
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US marriage rate
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dividing production by gender and designating the public sphere to men and private sphere to women
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sexual division of labor
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in her 1982 book The future of Marriage, Jessie Bernard introduces the concept of
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his and her marriages
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it give men privileged access to the rewards of capitalism
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feminist critique of marriage
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wave of pregnancies/ births following WWII
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baby boom
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Betty Friedan explain that "the broad discontent born of women's exclusion from the workplace and their lack of fulfillment in their roles as wives and mothers"
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the problem has no name
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in 2013, This percentage of total us households were made up of traditional nuclear families
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7
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in 2013, This percentage of children lived in 2 parent households
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69
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This percentage of people live alone, in 2013
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27
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relationship in which partners live as married but with formal legal framework of marriage
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cohabitation
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1996 Federal law that recognized "marriage" as being only a legal union between one man and one woman
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defense of marriage act
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legal unions that fall short of marriage but provide some state-level legal rights and benefits
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civil union
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legal unions that provide a circumscribed spectrum of right and benefits to same-sex couples
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domestic partnership
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person who live, work, worships, and is politically active in one nation, while still maintaining strong ties in other nations
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transnationalism
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one woman having multiple husbands
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polyandry
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According to studies, this is a characteristic of working-class or low-income child-rearing styles or an accomplishment of natural growth
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issuing directives rather than expectations
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total student loan debt now exceeds
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consumer credit card debt
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-ruled unconstitutional in 1967, sought to limit marriage to only people of same race
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anti miscegenation laws
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one explanation for why married couples "match up" is due to homogenous
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marriage markets like college or places of worship
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(in US) in lower income households, rural areas, and among recent migrants and minorities
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extended families are more common
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social status of the family, by being derived from the male's social position
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Talcott Parsons said distinct sex roles clarified
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Nancy Chodorow stated that women are socialized to be _______________, seeking close bond and defining themselves through relationships
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relational
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first-generation immigrant women have ______________birth rates compared to native-born US women. while second-generation typically have ______________ birth rates compared to US women
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higher, similar
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percent of deaf people who marry other who share their own language and culture
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85
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stated masculinity in boys may thus develop in part as a nonfemininity because of early childhood rejection by the mother
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Nancy Chodorow
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explanation for high divorce rate in the US, placing high value on this
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romantic love
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today in the US, both marriage and divorce rates
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on the decline
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Care for children and elderly/ transmission of cultural values/ unit of economic consumption
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social roles commonly attributed to families
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higher value on the collective, not the individual
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Characteristic of Native American families
