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Sociology Ch. 15
Families and Intimate Relationships
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Relationships in wich people live together with commitment, for an economic unit and car for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group | Families |
| A social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption | Kinship |
| The family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place | Family of Orientation |
| The family that a person forms by having or adopting children | Family of Procreation |
| A family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household | Extended Family |
| Social arrangements that include intimate relationships between couples and close familial relationships among other couples and other adults and children | Families We Choose |
| A family composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives | Nuclear Family |
| A legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity | Marriage |
| A marriage between two partners, usually a man and a woman | Monogamy |
| The concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex | Polygamy |
| The concurrent marriage of one man with two or more women | Polygyny |
| A succession of marriages in which a person has several spouses over a lifetime but is legally married to only one person at a time | Serial Monogamy |
| The concurrent marriage of one woman with two or more men | Polyandry |
| A system of tracing descent through the father's side of the family | Patrilineal Descent |
| A system of tracing descent through the mother's side of the family | Matrilineal Descent |
| A system of tracing descent through both the mother's and father's sides of the family | Bilateral Descent |
| A family structure in which authority is held by the eldest male (usually the father) | Patriarchal Family |
| A family structure in which authority is held by the eldest female (usually the mother) | Matriarchal Family |
| A family structure in which both partners share power and authority equally | Egalitarian Family |
| The custom of a married couple living in the same household (or community) as the husband's family | Patrilocal Residence |
| The custom of a married couple living in the same household (or community) as the wife's parents | Matrilocal Residence |
| The custom of a married couple living in their own residence apart from both the husband's and wife's parents | Neolocal Residence |
| The practice of marrying within one's own social group or category | Endogamy |
| The practice of marrying outside one's own social group or category | Exogamy |
| The sub discipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variations in family structure | Sociology of Family |
| Meeting the family's economic needs, making important decisions, and providing leadership | Instrumental Role |
| Running the household, caring for children, and meeting the emotional needs of family members | Expressive Role |
| Sexual regulation, socialization, economic and psychological support, and provision of social status | Key Functions of the Family |
| Capable of being diffused or invaded in such a manner that the family's original nature is modified or changed | Permeable |
| A situation in which two people live together, and think of themselves as a couple, without being legally married | Cohabitation |
| Household partnerships in which an unmarried couple lives together in a committed, sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights and benefits as those accorded to married heterosexual couples | Domestic Partnerships |
| The pattern of individuals marrying those who have similar characteristics, such as race/ethnicity, religious background, age, education, or social class | Homogamy |
| Marriages in which both spouses are in the labor force | Dual-Earner Marriages |
| Arlie Hochschild's term for the domestic work that employed women perform at home after they complete their workday on the job | Second Shift |
| A legal process through which the rights and duties of parenting are transferred from a child's biological and/or legal parents to a new legal parent or parents | Adoption |
| Any intentional act or series of acts - whether physical, emotional, or sexual - by one or both partners in an intimate relationship that causes injury to either person | Domestic Violence |
| Institutional settings or residences where adults other than a child's own parents or biological relatives serve as caregivers | Foster Care |
| A family consisting of a husband and wife, children from previous marriages, and children (if any) from the new marriage | Blended Family |
| Emphasize the importance of the family in maintaining the stability of society and the well-being of individuals | Functionalist Perspective |
| View the family as a source or social inequality and an arena for conflict | Conflict and Feminist Perspectives |
| Explain family relationships in terms of subjective meaning and everyday interpretations that people give to their lives | Symbolic Interactionist Perspective |
| View families as being permeable, capable of being diffused or invaded so that the original purpose in modified | Postmodern Perspective |
| Changes in social institutions, age at marriage, length of acquaintanceship, economic resources, education level, and parental marital happiness | Causes of Divorce |
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