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How does the Census Bureau define family?

2 or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption

How does the textbook define family?

A relationship by blood, marriage, or affection, in which members may cooperate economically, care for children, and may consider their definition to be intimately connected to a larger group

Family of orientation:

family that you are born into

Family of procreation:

family that you make through marriage, partnering, and or parenthood

What is fictive kin?

Non-relatives whose bonds are strong and intimate

Why are definitions important?

Respect to rights, access to social security benefits, pensions, and health insurance

Functions of families across all cultures:

-All cultures have marriage


-Regulation of Sexual behavior


-incest is taboo across all

Reproducing and socializing children across all cultures:

generally societies agree that reproduction should occur within an established family

Micro level:




Macro level:

Micro level: People focusing on their own interactions in specific settings- personal choices




Macro level: examines how marriage, families, and intimate relationships are interconnected with society

Polygamy:

a system that allows for more than one spouse at a time. Illigal

Polygyny:

a marriage pattern in which husbands can have more than one wife. Illigal.

Polyandry:

wives are allowed to have more than one husband

Matriarchy:

no cases of true matriarchies are known

Egalitarian:

expectation that power and authority are equally vested in men and women

Bilateral:

descent that can be traced through both male and female sides of the family

Patrilineal:

pattern where lineage is traced exclusively through the man's family line

Matrilineal:

a descent pattern where lineage is traced exclusively or primarily within women's families. Passed on through their male family members though

Neolocal:

expectation that a newly married couple establishes a residence and lives there independently

Patrilocal:

newly married couple lives with the husbands family. Common in other areas of the world

Matrilocal:

newly married couple will live with the wife's family. Not common

Families in Colonial America: European Colonists:

Families acted as:




-businesses


-schools


-churches


-correctional institutes


-health and social welfare institutes


Most families lives in nuclear families with the exception of extended families. Had 6 or more children often times, strict parents, children working, women not equal

Families during african american slavery:

- blood relationships extremely important


-many female headed households

Families during industrialization, urbaniation, and immigration:

families moved from farms to urban areas, many immigrants came to the US, alcoholism, violence, crime raised.

Modern family in the 20th century:

depression caused unemployment and homelessness, many women went to work, seperate families, women went to college to find partner, not career, marriage ages extremely low

Companionate family:

based on mutual affection, sexual attraction, compatibility, and personal happiness

Families today:

middle and lower class have less purchasing power, minimum wage doesn't keep up,

Empirical approach:

an approach that answers questions through a systematic collection and analysis of data

Methods of social research:

-Survey


-In-depth interview


-experiment


-focus group


-observational study


-secondary analysis

Structural functionalism theory:

a theory that attempts to determine structure, systems, functions, and equilibrium of social institutions

Conflict theory:

a theory that emphasizes issues surrounding social inequality, power, conflict, and social change

feminist theory:

a theory in which gender is seen as the central concept for explaining family structure and family dynamics

social exchange theory:

a theory that draws on a model of human behavior used by many economists. it assumes that individuals are rational beings, and their behavior reflects decisions evaluated on the basis of costs- both direct and opportunity costs- and benefits

symbolic interaction theory:

a theory that emphasizes the symbols we use in everyday interaction- words, gestures, appearances- and how these are interpreted

developmental theory:

a theory that suggests families and individual family members go through distinct stages over time, with each stage having its own set of tasks, roles, and responsibilities

systems theory:

a theory that proposes that a family system- the family members and the roles that they play- is larger than the sum of its individual members

is there a decline in the way that young people value marriage?

not really

Autocratic parenting:

Strict, harsh childbearing.

Hobbesian View of autocratic parenting:

believed that children's will needs to be tamed


-man's castle


-children had low status



Calvin/Puritan Beliefs:

inherant sinfullness of children, firm disciplin, no affection, children beaten

Hall's View:

-believed children are not like adults, unique and different.

Watson's Views:

Suggested to now show affection to children. believed responsive parenting spoiled children,

Freud's Views:

children are good and under optimal conditiosn their talents would emerge. affection is good,

Attachment theory:

Developed by John Bowlby:


-socialization begins with parental care, stress responses,

Rene Spitz's ideas:

importance of parental responsiveness.

B.F. Skinner believed in reinforcement as a consequence for appropriate behavior

Social learning theory:

B.F. Skinner, Walters, and Bandura: children learn through reinforcement. Imitation and modeling

Erikson:

Developed the Theory of Psychosocial development. quality of parent child relationship affects individuals ability to solve the psychological crisis at each stage

Montessori:

Children have absorben Minds. encouraged exploring and learning.

Caroline Pratt:

Children's play is their work

Jean Piaget:

infants and children are cognitively capable humans and they actively engage with their environment to learn,

Vygotsky:

Developed sociocultural theory: scaffholding too.

Dreikur's Social Discipline Theory:

Democracy encouraged.

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model:

Microsystem, mesosystem, eosystem, and chronosystem.

Microsystem:

Home, parents

Mesosystem:

school, teachers, caregivers

Exosystem:

economic recession, war, technology

Ethnotheories:

implicit, taken for granted ideas about the "right" way to act. Such as religion

Family development theory:

stages families go through

Galinsky's Six Stages of Parenthood:

1) Image-Making - prepping during pregnancy


2) Nurtuting- continues to about 24 months.


3) Authority- beings about age 2


4) Interpretive- begins age 5. children become more independent


5) Interdependent - adolescence. shared power


6) departure- children begin to leave home

Six parenting patterns:

-Authoritative


-Authoritarian


-Permissive


-Traditional


-Indulgent


-Indifferent

Authoritative Parents:

Demanding and Nurturing

Authoritarian Parents:

More harsh, more demanding, discourage freely expressing children

Permissive Parents:

Lack of rules and nurture

Indulgent Parents:

No discipline, but nurturing

Indifferent parents:

don't really bother with children

Total fertility rate:

Average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime. Births per woman.

General fertility rate:

number of children born per 1,000 women ages 15-44

Crude fertility rate:

The number of children born per 1,000 population.

Pronatalism:

A cultural value that encourages childbearing

ART: Assisted reproductive technology:

All fertility treatments in which either egg or sperm or both are handled.

Traditional surrogacy:

man's sperm is put into another woman to carry to term. surrogate is bio mom

Gestational surrogacy:

Man's sperm and woman's egg is put into surrogate mother

Closed Adoption:

identifying info is sealed to all parties

Open adoption:

direct contact between the bio and adoptive parents

Public adoption:

occurs through licensed public agencies

Private adoption:

adoption arranged between bio and adoptive parents with the help of an attorney