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Family
Any sexually express or parent-child or other kin relationship in which people live together with a commitment in an intimate interpersonal relationship. Family members see their identity as importantly attached to the group, which has an identity of its own. Families today take several forms: single parent, remarried, dual career, communal, homosexual, traditional, and so forth
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Household
- As a Census Bureaus category; it's any group of people residing together
- Family Structure
- The form a family takes, such as nuclear family, extended family, single-parent, step family, and the like
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Extended Family
Family including relatives besides parents and children, such as aunts and uncles
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Nuclear Family
- A family group compromising only the wife, the husband, and their children
- Postmodern Family
- Term used to describe the situation in which families today exhibit multiple forms, and new or altered family forms continue to emerge or develop
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Social Institution
A system of patterned and predictable ways of thinking and behaving-beliefs, values, attitudes, and norms-concerning important aspects of people's lives in society
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Family Decline/Family Change Perspectives
Some family scholars and policy makers characterize late-twentieth-century developments in the family as "decline", while others describe "change". Those who take the "family decline" perspective view such changes as increases in the age at first marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and no marital births and the decline in fertilely as disastrous for the family as a major social institution. "Family Change" scholars and policy makers consider that the family has varied over time. They argue that the family can adapt to recent changes and continue to play a strong role in society
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Sociological Imagination
Placing an individual's or family's private troubles within a society-wide context
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Life Chances
The opportunities that exist for a social group or an individual to pursue education and economic advancement, to secure medical care and preserve health, to marry and have children, to have material goods and housing of desired quality and so forth
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Race
A group or category thought of as representing a distinct biological heritage. In reality, there is only one human race. Categories are social constructs; the so-called races do not differ significantly in terms of basic biological makeup. But "racial" designations nevertheless have social and economic effects and cultural meanings.
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Ethnicity
A group's identity based on a sense of a common culture and language
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Minority
Group that is distinguishable and in some way disadvantaged within a society, regardless of size
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Social Class
Position in the social hierarchy, such as upper class, middle class, working class, or lower class. Can be viewed in terms of such indicators as education, occupation, and income or analyzed in terms of status, respect, and lifestyle.
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Family Policy
All the actions, procedures, regulations, attitudes, and goals of government that affect families.
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Family Impact Lens
Way of looking at how a policy in question impacts families
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Structural Constraints
Economic and social forces that limit options and hence personal choices
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Deciding Vs. Sliding
Two ways of dealing with choices
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Family Identity
Ideas and feelings about the uniqueness and value of one's family unit
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Self-Concept
The basic feelings people have about themselves, their characteristics and abilities and their worth; how people think of or view themselves
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Familistic (Communal) Values
Values that focus on the family group as a whole and on maintaining family identity and cohesiveness
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Individualistic (Self-Fulfillment) Values
Values that encourage self-fulfillment, personal growth, autonomy, and independence over commitment to family or other communal needs
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What is the U.S Census Bureau's concept of family & legal definition?
- 2010 definition:
- "A family consists of 2+ people (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption residing in the same housing unit."
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What are the various forms in society & the complexities of defining the word family in our changing society?
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What is the author's definition of family?
"A family is any sexually expressive, parent-child, or other kin relationship in which people- usually related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption--(1)form an economic and/or otherwise practical unit and care for any children or other dependents, (2) consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group, and (3) commit to maintaining that group over time
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What is the meaning of familism (familistic values)?
Placing family well-being over individual interests and preferences.
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What is the meaning of individualism (indvidualistic values).
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What is the difference between familism and individualism?
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How does familism and individualism affect marriage and family?
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What is the importance of making choices in relationship?
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What is the difference between active, knowledgeable choices and choice by default?
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What does it mean to make choices knowledgeably or by default?
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understand that people's decisions are both influenced by social constraint and at the same time can be sources of change in the social structure.
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What is the tension between individual and communal values?
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Are we in the era of "family decline" or "family change?"
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What i the importance of the family in providing members a place of personal identity?
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What are some of the historical changes related to marriage, family, children and divorce?
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