UNIT 1 Family stuides
Affective Nurturance
Meeting the emotional needs of family members
Arranged Marriage
When two families negotiate an agreement about the marriage of their son or daughter to each other.
Blended Family
A family in which divorced partners with children remarry.
Marital relationship
A legitimate sexual relationship or marriage
Consanguinity
When a person is related to another person by blood
Consumer Family:
A family in which the husband is the provider, head of the household, and the link between family and society, while the wife is the homemaker for whom new products are manufactured to help make the home more comfortable for her husband and children
Cottage industry:
In pre-industrial societies, when a father worked at a business in the family home, often as a merchant or an artisan, and the wife and children helped him
Cultural anthropologists:
: People who study isolated human families to create theories about the development of human civilization and the origin of the family unit.
Duel income family:
A family in which both spouses work full-time
Extended Family:
When young adults continue to live in their parent's household after they are married
Family:
Any combination of two or more people who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption/placement and who, together, assume responsibilities for variant combination of some of the following: physical maintenance and care of group members; addition of new members through procreation or adoption; socialization of children; social control of member: production, consumption and distribution of good and reservations effective nurturance love
Family wage:
The salary earned by males who were the sole providers for a family from the 19th to about the mid-20th centuries.
Functions
: In sociology, a basic and universal action or purpose, such as reproduction or the provision of food, enables individuals and families to survive.
Hordes:
The first family groupings, such as our primate relatives
Industrial nuclear family
A family in which the husband worked to provide for his wife and children while the mother worked at home and nurtured their children.
Kin group:
A family that consists of uncles, aunts, cousin, grandparents, in laws, and other relatives.
Monogamy
Having one marital partner
Nuclear family
Patriarchy IN modern society, a husband and wife who live with their children and place more importance on their marital relationship than on relationships with their parents and relatives.
Polygamy
When a man has several wives.
Transitional family:
A family structure in which the mother temporarily leaves the work force to look after her young children.
Anthropology:
The study of human behaviour in societies; therefore, the study of the arts, beliefs, habits, institutions, and other endeavours that are characteristic of a specific community.
Disciplines:
Specific branches of learning, such as mathematics, anthropology, sociology, or psychology.
Ethnocentrism
The tendency to evaluate behavour from the point of view of one’s own culture
Norm:
The most prevalent role behaviours in a group or society
Personality:
In psychology, individual behaviour based on mental processes and characteristics patterns of motivation
Psychology:
The study of behaviour based on mental processes, focusing on how the individuakl thinks
Role:
THe set of behaviurs that an individual is expected to demonstrate within a status.
Sociology:
social science that explains the behaviour of individuals as they interact in social groups
Theoretical perspective:
A point of view based on a specific theory in social science