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HDFS 145 Chapt 1
HDFS 145 Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Marriage | The legally recognized union between a man and women in which economic cooperation, legitimate sexual interactions, and the rearing of children may take place. |
Monogamy | 1. Practice of having only one husbabd or wife ar a time, 2. sexual exclusiveness (colloquial). |
Polygamy | Practice of having more than one husband or wife at the same time; plural marriage. |
Polygyny | Practive of having more than one wife at the same time. |
Polyandry | Practice of having more than one husband at the same time. |
Serial Monongamy | Practice in which one person may have serveral spouses over his or her lifetime although no more than one at any given time. |
Family | Unit of two or more people, of which one or more many be children who are related by blood, marriage, or affiliation and who cooperate economically and may share common dwelling place. |
Affiliated Kin | Unrelated individuals who are treated as if they were related. |
Fictive Kin | Extension of kinship-like attributes to nonblood relationships (such as friends neighbors) to demonstrate their importance and to symbolize the mutual reciprocity found within them. |
Socilaization | Shaping of individual behavior to conform to social or cultural norms. |
Family of orientation | Family in which a person is reared as a child. |
Nuclear Family | Basic family building block, consisting of a mother, father, and at least one child. |
Binuclear Families | Postdivorce family with children, consisting of the orignal nuclear family divided into two families one headed by the mother, the other by the father; the two "new" families may be single-parent or stepfamilies. |
Family of procreation | Family formed by a couple and their child or children. |
Family of cohabitation | To the family we form through living or cohabitating with another person, whether we are married or unmarried. |
Extended Family | Family unit of parent(s), child(ren), and other kin such as grandparents. aunts, uncles, and cousins. |
Modified extended families | Extended families in which members share contact, care, and support even know though they don't share a residence. |
Kinship system | Soicial organization of the family conferring rights and obligations based on an individual's status. |
Conjugal Relationships | Relationship formed by marriage. |
Consanguineous Relationships | Relationship formed by common blood ties. |
Conservatives | People who tend to believe that cultural values have shifted from individual self-sacrifice for their families toward personal fulfillment. Believe that as a result of such changes today's families are weaker and lessable to meet needs of children, adults |
Liberals | People who tend to believe that the changes in family patterns are products of and adaptations to wider social and economic changes rather than a shift in cultural values. |
Cenrists | People share aspects of both conservative and liberal positions. Liberals identify wider social changes eg. economic as a major determinants of changes in family life, consercatives believe that some familial changes have negtive consequences. |
Accepters | Individuals who perceive family trends as either good or making no difference in society. |
Rejecters | Individuals who perceive changing family patterns as bad for society. |
Skeptics | Individuals who are relaively tolerant of changes in families lifestyles but are somewhat concerned about their impact on society. |
Gender | Division into male and female, often in a social sense; sex. |
Transgender | Broad category describing individuals who stand outside and apart from societal convenations regarding gender, neither identifying with nor acting w/in societal conventions for males or females. |
Clan | A group of families related along matrillineal or patrillineal descent lines, regarded as the basic family unit in some cultures. |
Household | Defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, one or more people, everyone living in a housing unit makes up a household. |
Reflection hypothesis | How media content reflects the values and ideals of what people want to see or what already exists. |