Family And Age Groups

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Family

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For the purpose of this chapter, and social unit, or set of social relations, that does what families are popularly imagined to do.

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Nuclear Family

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A group consisting of a father and a mother, and their children, living in the same dwelling.

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Extended Family

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Multiple generations of family living together, or several adult siblings with their spouses and children who share the same dwelling and resources.

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Census Family

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a household that includes two spouses - opposite or same sex, married or cohabiting (if they have lived together longer than one year) - with of without never being marries children or a single parent with one or more never married children.

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Patriarchy

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A social or political system in which men hold power and women are largely excluded from it.

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Ageism

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All types of prejudice or discrimination against members of society based on an individuals age, whether old or young.

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Moral Entrepreneur

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A person who attempts to influence people's attitudes by arousing social concerns over a topic that may be fairly trivial in nature or frequency.

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Life course

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A patterned sequence of individuals experiences over time, subject to varied social, historical, and cultural influences.

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Life Course Approach

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Studies a single generation over the lifespan to understand age groups, individual life patterns and family relations.

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Common Features of Families

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Dependency

Intimacy

Sexuality

Protection

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Rates on the rise

-Current family trends in Canada

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-diversity of family structures (e.g. coha

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Rates on the Decline

-Current family trends in Canada

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-family size

-household size

-marriage

-fertility

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Theories and Concepts

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Ideas associated with age

-are socailly constructed

-vary across cultures

-change over time

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Disengagment Theory

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As people age and decline, they withdraw from society to prepare for their death and make way in the workforce for the next generation (******* and Henry)

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Activity Theory

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As people agem they take on new roles and identities, and are able to preserve a greater quality of life by maintaining high activity levels (Havighurst and Albrecht)

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Caregiven Burden

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Heightened risk of physical, emotional, or mental health problems for family members caring for relatived with chronic/disabling conditions.

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Changing Age Relations

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The agingn of a population changes society, including the balance of power.

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The Baby Boom (1947-1967)

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A large, influential demographic group that has overwhelmed social institutions as it passes through successive age categories (e.g. adolescence, adulthood , old age)

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Aging Population

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increasing costs of healthcare and long term cate fall to younger generations. (Gen Xers, Millennials)

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Boomerang Kids

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young adults who have returned to the parental home.

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Phillipe Aries (1914-1984)

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Proposed "childhood" is a social construct that has changed over time.

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William J. Goode (1917-2003)

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Studied changes in family organization during the first half of their twentith century and observed that family structures worldwide were moving towards the nuclear family model, which he argued better suited the demands of an industrial society.

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Glen Elder (b.1934)

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Developed the life course approach and demonstrated how social context influences the experience of a particular age and one's personal histroy after that stage of life.

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Arlie Russel Horchschild (b. 1940)

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Introduced the concepts of feeling rules, emotional labour, second shift and time bind, and has studied the impact that the changing North American workplace has had on families.

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Suzanne Bianchi (1952 - 2013)

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Examined the amount of time mothers spend on paid work, on housework, and with their children, and found that despite an influx of women into the workforce, their time spent with children was unchanged, leaving women less time for housework, leisure and sleep.

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Functionalism

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View the family as a microcosm of society, with individual family members coming together to form a unified and productive whole and, in that way, making major contribution to the survival of society.

-families are small social systems

Functionalists generally view societal institutions in light of their functionality in maintaining stability in society. With regard to families, functionalists view them as important institutions for socializing children (the next generation) and keeping people content.

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Families typically share some features, these include:

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Dependency - Family relations tend to include long-term commitments, both to each other and to the family as a social unit.

Intimacy - Family members ideally have a deep understanding of, and familiarity with, one another. Feelings of trust and affection.

Sexuality - Adult partners in families ideally have, or expected to have, a long-term exclusive sexual relations.

Protection - Idealized families guard their members against all kinds of internal and external dangers.

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Conflict Theory

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-does not assume that families operate as systems, maximizing the good of all their members and contributing to the survival of society.

- it takes historical approach and focuses on political and economic changes that have affected family life, especially changes that cause shifts in power relationships within families.

- industrialization

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Industrialization

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most important to the conflict theorists

it saw family change from self sustaining unit of protection to a unit of consumption in a society marked by consumer capitalism.

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Symbolic Interactionism

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used to study how members of a family interacts with one another and resolve conflicts within the boundaries of their roles in the family

creation and revision of family "myths" is a particular interest - help families celebrate who they are.

constructed definitions of age and aging affects a persons experience of growing old.

-activity theory

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Activity Theory

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argues against functionalism disengagement theory, which, as just noted, holds that people readily give up their social roles as they age. In contrast, activity theory proposes that people actually take on new roles, and even new identities, as they age, even after they have left the workforce.

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Feminism

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analyses of families trends to focus on the link between the modern nuclear family, the economy, and women's subordination. And we can see how all three topics are connected through the concept of social reproduction.

A generation after women fought for and won the right to compete with men for employment opportunities outside the home, many women are electing to put career aspirations on hold to stay at home with their young children.

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Social reproduction

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refers to all of the social, economic, ideological, and political processes that preserve that social structure and its component relationships over time.

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Postmodernism

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Divorce or single parenting - not traditional nuclear families - are commonly discussed topics.
Studies conducted under this approach are likely to present the positive effect of divorce and to suggest that it is possible to raise children well in families that differ from the traditional nuclear model.