Families Unit 1
What Is a Lone Parent Family
One Parent and One or More Children
What is a Nuclear Family
Two parents and One or more Children
Intact Familyl
Two parents and their original children
Same Sex Family
Couple of the same sex
common law family
Couple who lives together but are not married
Extended Family
Family that includes parents, children, and other blood relatives living in the same house hold
Modified Extended Family
Extended family that doesn't live together but still support eachother
skip Gen family
Grandparents and grandchildren living together without parents involved
Supra Family
Extra family members who do not live together but are still related
Blended Family
Divorced and remarried parents who create a new family that includes their original children and children from their new partner
Simple Step Family
remarried couples with a child from a past relationship from one spouse
complies step family
Remarried couples who both have children from a past marriage
monogamy
Having one partner
serial monogamy
Marriage, divorce, and remarriage
polygamy
Having multiple spouses
polygyny
Having multiple wives
polyandry
Having multiple husbands
polyamory
Having more than one partner with consent from all partners
arranged marriage
Marriage arranged to increase family assets and reputation
1st function of family
Addition of members
2nd function of family
physical care of members
3rd function of fam
Socialization
4th function
social control
5th function
Affective nurture/ morale
6th function
Producing/consuming
family life stage 1
Young adult leaving home
Fam life stage 2
Joining new family through marriage/union
Fam life stage 3
Fam with young kids
Fam life stage 4
Fam with adolescent
Fam life stage 5
launching kids/ starting midlife
fam life stage 6
Late mid life
Fam life stage 7
Near end
functionalism
How society functions effectively
systems theory
How people act in a system
symbolic interactionism
How people act based on perceptions of themselves
exchange theory
How people act in relationships
conflict theory
Conflict exists in society because of inequalities of power
origin of family
hierarchy based on size, hordes, mutual coop
Hunter gatherer 3 factors
Women were gatherers
men were hunters
women take care of children
agricultural families
Perm settlement
domestication of animals
growth of crop
patriarchy
pre industrial
Boys do trade
girls do house hold
Father led
Urban industrial
Consumers of goods and services
men were breadwinners
children focus on education
contemporary fam
Queer
single parent
no children
Love marriage
status
specific position in a social group
role
Set of behaviors that someone is supposed to demonstrate
norm
Most prevalant behaviora
feedback
a process where members learn to interact to maintain the system
subsystems
everyone has subsystems such as family
strategies
pattern of interactions that are repeated
habits
androcentricity
if females don’t act like males they are deviant
liberal feminism
trying to change social policy through political means
socialist feminism
assumption that women social
inequality comes from difference in pay based on gender
radical feminism
calls for a radical reordering in society