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Flashcards by Caitlin Hall, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Caitlin Hall
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| Question | Answer |
| Family | A relationship by blood, marriage, or affection, in which members may cooperate economically, may care for children, and consider their identity to be intimately connected to the larger group. |
| Family of orientation | The family that you are born into. |
| Family of procreation | The family you make through marriage, partnering, and/or parenthood. |
| Fictive kin | Nonrelatives whose bonds are strong and intimate. |
| Marriage | An institutional arrangement between persons to publicly recognize social and intimate bonds. |
| Socialization | The process by which people learn the rules, expectations, and culture of society. |
| Social structure | A stable framework of social relationships that guides our interactions with others. |
| Micro level | Focus on the individual and his or her interactions in specific settings. |
| Macro-level | Focus on the interconnectedness of marriage, families, and intimate relationships with the rest of society. |
| Social institution | A major sphere of social life, with a set of beliefs and rules that is organized to meet basic human needs. |
| Status | The social position that a person occupies. |
| Master status | The major defining status or statuses that a person occupies. |
| Human agency | The ability of human beings to create viable lives even when they are constrained or limited by social forces. |
| Monogamy | Marriage between one man and one woman. |
| Polygamy | A system that allows for more than one spouse at a time (gender unspecified). |
| Polygyny | A marriage pattern in which husbands can have more than one wife. |
| Polyandry | The marriage pattern in which wives are allowed to have more than one husband. |
| Patriarchy | A form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that men have a natural right to be in positions of authority over women. |
| Matriarchy | A form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that the power and authority in society would be vested in women. |
| Egalitarian | The expectation that power and authority are equally vested in men and women. |
| Bilateral | Descent that can be traced through both male and female sides of the family. |
| Patrilineal | A descent pattern where lineage is traced exclusively (or at least primarily) through the man's family line. |
| Matrilineal | A descent pattern where lineage is traced exclusively or primarily within women's families. |
| Neolocal | The expectation that a newly married couple establishes a residence and lives there independently. |
| Patrilocal | The expectation that a newly married couple will live with the husband's family. |
| Matrilocal | The expectation that a newly married couple will live with the wife's family. |
| Nuclear family | A family composed of adults and their children. |
| Extended family | A family composed of parents, children, and other relatives such as grandparents. |
| Companionate family | A marriage based on mutual affection, sexual attraction, compatibility, and personal happiness. |
| Empirical approach | An approach that answers questions through a systematic collection and analysis of data. |
| Survey | A form of research that gathers information about attitudes or behaviors through the answers that people give to questions. |
| Random sample | A sample in which every "person of interest" has an equal chance of being selected into your research study. |
| In-depth interview | A research method that allows an interviewer to obtain detailed responses to questions. |
| Experiment | A controlled method for determining cause and effect. |
| Focus group | A small group interview of people who are brought together to discuss a particular topic. |
| Observational study | A research method that goes into the natural setting and observes people in action. |
| Secondary analysis | A research method in which the data were collected for some other purpose but still are useful to the researcher. |
| Quantitative research | Research that focuses on data that can be measured numerically. |
| Qualitative research | Narrative description with words rather than numbers to analyze patterns and their underlying meanings. |
| Theory | A general framework, explanation, or tool used to understand and describe the real world. |
| Structural functionalism theory | A theory that attempts to determine the structure, systems, functions, and equilibrium of social institutions. |
| Conflict theory | A theory that emphasizes issues surrounding social inequality, power, conflict, and social change. |
| Feminist theory | A theory in which gender is seen as the central concept for explaining family structure and family dynamics. |
| Social exchange theory | A theory that draws on a model of human behavior used by many economists. It assumes that individuals are rational being, and their behavior reflects decisions evaluated on the basis of costs - both direct and opportunity costs- and benefits. |
| Symbolic interaction theory | A theory that emphasizes the symbols we use in everyday interaction - words, gestures, appearances - and how these are interpreted. |
| Developmental theory | A theory that suggests families & individual family members go through distinct stages over time, with each stage having its own set of tasks, roles, and responsibilities. |
| Systems theory | A theory that proposes that a family system - the family members & the roles that they play - is larger than the sum of its individual members. |
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