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FAD2230
FSU family relationships
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Undergraduate 1
04/26/2013

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Power
Definition
What is power? Who has power? Who doesn’t have power?
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coercive power
Definition

To punish another individual, force them to do something with the threat of punishment

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Reward power
Definition
ability to reward someone (praise, money, attention)
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Expert Power
Definition
power someone has over someone else when they have expertise over someone else (A professor)
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  Informational Power

Definition
power you have when you information someone else doesn't (blackmail, you heard smoking is bad for you and you tell your smoking bf) you don't have to be an expert
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  Referent Power

Definition

A person who doesn’t have very much power gives power to someone else. We give power to the president or your boss

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Legitimate Power
Definition

  Type of power given to someone by another body, entity, or person.

For ex: Police officer is given power by the state of Florida to enforce the law. Attorneys also.

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Marital Power
Definition

how spouses share power that they have

first studied in the 1950s

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Blood and Wolfe
Definition

-interviewed wives only

-asked them who they thought had the power

-Most families: 72% of wives had relatively egalitarian decision making structure (Both make decisions)

-25% of wives said husbands made decisions

-3% of wives said they made decisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Resource hypothesis

Definition

(Blood and Wolfe’s hypothesis) the spouse with more resources has more power in marriage;

  Women and Men Brought resources. But men’s resources were valued moreas


 

 

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Criticisms of Blood and Wolfe's study
Definition

o   What domains men and women have power over

o   Women: Food, shopping, cleaning

o   Husbands: where they live, jobs, finances

“Having the power to make trivial decisions is not the same as having the power to make important ones

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Resources and Gender:

males

Definition

§  Money

§  Education

§  Status

§  Physical strength

§  Alternatives to marriage

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Resources and Gender:

Females

Definition

o   Women tend to be most equal with men at the beginning of marriage

§  First pregnancy and birth diminishes women’s resources

§  Female may take time off and lose income

§  Dependent on males to be father and earner

§  Have less energy to resist dominance of husband

§  Children somewhat force them into these gender roles

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culture's influence on resource and gender
Definition

§  Resource theory does not explain everything

§  Culture gives husbands absolute legitimate power

§  Interaction of legitimate and resource power

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Legitimacy and resources

Definition

  •   Culture gives husbands power and husband’s have greater resources- husband will be dominant
  •   Culture gives husband power and husband has less resources than wife- husband will be dominant
  •  Culture does not give husband power and husband has greater resources than wife- husband is probably dominant
  • Culture does not give husband power and husband less resources- egalitarian marriage or wife dominant
  • 75% of them, man dominates

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   Power and social class

Definition
  •   Most social classes perceive that they have egalitarian marriages (not always true)
  • Upper class marriages are least likely to be egalitarian
  • Lower and Middle class marriages are more likely to be egalitarian
  • ·      Because both partners probably have to work, both bring resources and are vital
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