FAMILY: Two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage or adoption.

POLYGYNY: A form of marriage in which men have more than one wife.

POLYANDRY: A form of marriage in which women have more than one husband.

HOUSEHOLD: People who occupy the same housing unit

NUCLEAR FAMILY: A family consisting of a husband, wife, and child(ren).

EXTENDED FAMILY: A nuclear family plus other relatives, such as grandparents, uncles, and aunts.

FAMILY OF PROCREATION: The family formed when a couple's first child is born.

FAMILY OF ORIENTATION: The family in which a person grows up.

MARRIAGE: A group's approved mating arrangements, usually marked by ritual of some sort.

Chart Page 449 - Cultural Themes of Marriage

MATE SELECTION: Established norms (based on culture) set for who can marry whom.

ENDOGAMY: The practice of marrying within one's group

EXOGAMY: The practice of marrying outside one's group

INCEST TABOO: The rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives

SYSTEM OF DESCENT: How kinship is traced over the generations

BILATERAL: A System of reckoning descent that counts both the mother's and the father's side.

PATRILINEAL: A system of reckoning descent that counts only the father's side.

MATRILINEAL: A system of reckoning descent that counts only the mother's side.

KINSHIP- READINGS
http://anthro.palomar.edu/kinship/default.htm

INHERITANCE: A societies way to pass on goods/valuables/tangible objects.

Each society has their own way based on their descent system.

AUTHORITY: Our marriage and family customs and how they look at the authority role.

PATRIARCHY: A society or group in which men dominate women; authority is vested in men.

MATRIARCHY: A society in which women as a group dominate men as a group.

EGALITARIAN: Authority more or less equally divided between people or groups, in this instance husband and wife

FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE: Functionalist believe that all aspects of society work together to make a whole. They also believe that certain basic needs must be met by society in order to live. Family fills those needs in most cultures.

FAMILY IS UNIVERSAL: Family meets the universal basic needs that help society function.
1. Economic Production
2. Socialization
3. Care of the sick and aged
4. Recreation
5. Sex Control
6. Reproduction

ROLE CONFUSION: Incest Taboo's help family members avoid role confusion. You know your role in the family based. I.E. You can't be a daughter and a lover...

DYSFUNCTIONS: Nuclear families experience problems- incest, abuse, emotional overload- because there are fewer people.

CONFLICT THEORY: The struggle for power is the basis for conflict theory- for the purpose of the family unit think about the power struggle in a marriage and the different gender roles.

EXAMPLE: Housework- Chart on page 452

SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE: The meaning that people give their lives.

Example: Housework & Gender Roles-
Husbands that are laid off or make less than their wives do LESS housework than their wives. It is a threat to their masculinity.

LOVE AND COURTSHIP: Different around the world based on culture.

ROMANTIC LOVE: Feelings of erotic attraction accompanied by an idealization of the other

MARRIAGE: Sociologically speaking you marry people who are similar to you-

HOMOGAMY: The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another - results from propinquity (spatial nearness).

CHILDBIRTH: Depends on socioeconomic status and has implications in marriage.

CHILD REARING: Who cares for the children, who raise the child.

THE EMPTY NEST: A married couple's domestic situation after the last child has left home.

BOOMERANG CHILDREN: Children who are grown who return home

WIDOWHOOD: Life after the loss of a spouse.

DIVERSITY: In all cultures, but especially in the USA we have high amount of diversity which changes the social patterns.

***Note there is no typical "--(insert ethnicity)-- FAMILY"*** But there are trends that sociologist have studied.

AFRICAN AMERICANS FAMILIES: Page 460 Social class plays a large role in their marriage decisions.

LATINO AMERICANS FAMILIES: Page 461-462 Social class plays a large role in their marriage decisions.
MACHISMO: An emphasis on male strength and dominance can be found in the Latino families. - This is decrease with each generation in American families.

ASIAN AMERICAN FAMILIES: Page 462 - The more recent the immigration, just as with Latino families the more traditional their families. Stronger core values.

NATIVE AMERICAN FAMILIES: Page 462 - Families have to decide whether to assimilate or follow traditional values.

ONE PARENT FAMILIES: American families are changing. The one parent family is often in poverty.

FAMILIES WITHOUT CHILDREN: 1 in 5, this is a growing number (about 20%). Note it is not always a choice for every couple.

BLENDED FAMILIES: A family whose members were once a part of other families

GAY AND LESBIAN FAMILIES: Legal in some places around the world and in the USA.

POSTPONING MARRIAGE: View charts on page 467. First time brides and grooms are older than any time in US history.

COHABITATION: Unmarried couples living together in a sexual relationship.

UNMARRIED MOTHERS: Industrialized nations have the highest numbers of this and is a growing trend.

GRANDPARENTS AS PARENTS: Child rearing falling to the grandparents to complete for various reasons (parents are incapable).

THE SANDWICH GENERATION: Adults who are responsible for both their children and their elder parents.

DIVORCE RATES: Hard to measure (read page 470).

CHILDREN OF DIVORCE: Studies show children have a hard time adapting- no matter what the age.

ABSENT FATHER: Just what it sounds like.

SEIRAL FATHERHOOD: A pattern of parenting in which a father, after divorce, reduces contact with his own children, serves as a father to the children of the woman he marries or lives with, then ignores these children, too, after moving in with or marring another woman.

THE EX-SPOUSES: Multiple levels of relationships occur all depend on the culture and the way the family was shaped.

REMARRIAGE: Page 474 to see trends.

THE DARK SIDE: See book Page 475
BATTERING
CHILD ABUSE
MARITAL RAPE
INCEST

THE LIGHT SIDE:
SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES