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Family
A social institution that unites individuals into cooperative groups that care for one another, including any children. TERM 2
Kinship
DEFINITION 2 A social bond, based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption, that joins individuals into families. TERM 3
Nuclear Family
DEFINITION 3 One or two parents and their children. TERM 4
Extended Family
DEFINITION 4 Parents and children and also grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who often live close to one another and operates as a family unit. TERM 5
Marriage
DEFINITION 5 A lawful relationship usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing.
Families of Affinity
People with or without legal or blood ties who feel they belong together and define themselves as a family. TERM 7
Cohabitation
DEFINITION 7 The sharing of a household by an unmarried couple. TERM 8
Blended Families
DEFINITION 8 Families in which children have some combination of biological parents and stepparents. TERM 9
In Vitro Fertilization
DEFINITION 9 Uniting egg and sperm in a laboratory. TERM 10
Surrogate Motherhood
DEFINITION 10 An arrangement by which one woman carries and bears a child for another woman.
Eleanor Holmes Norton (1985)
Argues that the "breakdown" of the African American family is the result of long-term racism. discrimination in jobs, education, and housing TERM 17
William Julius Wilson (1987, 1996a)
DEFINITION 17 Added to Norton's views that African Americans who fall within a disadvantaged urban "underclass" find there are simply not enough jobs to allow men and women to support a family. TERM 18
No-Fault Divorce
DEFINITION 18 Courts no longer blamea partner for a failed marriage. property is divided fairly and courts place children where they see fit for them assigns child support according to parent's need, noncustodial parent's ability to pay, and abilities of both parents to work TERM 19
Allen Parkman (1992)
DEFINITION 19 Claimed divorce harms women because it ignores cultural capital, which includes skills and schooling that increase a person's earning power. Solution to unhappy marriages because it treats men and women equally TERM 20
Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act (1998)
DEFINITION 20 Makes it a serious crime to refuse to provide support payments to a child residing in another state or to move to another state to avoid making such payments.
Structural-Functional Analysis
Views family as the most important unit of social organizations. follows views of George Murdock claims that families operate as the foundation of a healthy society any threat to family life is likely defined as a social problem TERM 22
George Murdock (1949)
DEFINITION 22 Claims that families exist everywhere in the world because they perform four major tasks essential for the operation of society. are society's way of regulating reproduction create a stable and caring environment for children are units of economic cooperation between spouses as well as other kin look to one another for emotional support in a world that can be uncaring or sometimes dangerous TERM 23
Symbolic-Interaction Analysis
DEFINITION 23 Views family less as a societal institution and more as the ongoing interactions of individuals. highlights how people understand themselvesand their partners the experience of family life differs over time and also from person to person TERM 24
Social-Conflict Analysis
DEFINITION 24 Family plays animportant part in the operation of society. points to how families operate to benefit some and disadvantage others follows view of Friedrich Engels TERM 25
Friedrich Engels
DEFINITION 25 Families came into being among the wealthy mostly so that men, who wanted to pass their property from father to son, could be reasonably sure who their offspringwere. Bottom Line - this social institution turns women into the sexual and economic property of men
