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| Procreation, socialization, economic/emotional security, social status. |
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| Two or more persons who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption. |
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| Husband and wife, children (biological or adopted), single parent, same sex parenthood, grandparents raising children. |
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| 2 or more generations live with each other or near to one another. |
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| Numerical analyses of peoples responses or characteristics. |
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Explosion in number and size of cities in the west
Changes in average level of education
Physical separation of work from the household
Declines in birth and death rates |
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Family is a social system and it has several parts.
Relationship between family and larger society as well as internal relationships among family members. |
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| Levels of Brofenbrenner's Ecological Perspective |
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Microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem.
Family influences and is influenced by the environment. |
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| 4 social change assumptions |
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1. All social behavior is a series of exchanges.
2. In course of exchanges, individuals attempt to maximize their rewards and minimize their costs. (Credit>debt).
3. Under certain circumstances, a person will accept costs in exchange for rewards.
4. When we receive rewards from others, we are obligates to reciprocate. |
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Tasks that arise at particular points in an individuals life. Achievement of tasks leads to happiness and further success, failure leads to unhappiness, further failure, and societal disapproval.
Determines success in family relations |
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| For a family to grow it news to fulfill... |
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-Biological requirements
-Cultural imperatives
-Personal aspirations and values |
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| Worlds of work, rough ethic of business world, money is only reward. |
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| world of home, morally pure. Center of affection, nurturing, emotions. |
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| Right after civil war, women as frail, innately pure. Needed at home, forced to hide sexuality, condemned contraception. |
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| Women expected to exhibit piety, purity, submissiveness, domesticity. Middle class women only worked if necessary. |
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| 4 characteristics of emerging "modern" american family (1776-1900) |
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1. Marriage: mutual respect and affection
2. Wife cared for home and children
3. "Childhood": protect and support children
4. Decline in number of children per family. |
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| Individual and personal relationships within families, enchanted emotional rewards, support independence. |
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| Decline of children per family in 1800's |
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Early 1800's - 7 children avg.
Early 1850's - 5 children avg.
Children need discipline and economic support as well as attention affection, love, care, etc. |
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| Socially defined group distinguished by selected, inherited physical characteristics. |
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| Sense of peoplehood based on common national origin, religion, or language. |
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| subordinate to majority in terms of power and prestige, not numbers. |
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| Immigration movement 1820-1880 |
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| Nuclear families from northern Europe (Germany/Scandanavia) usually farmers, settled in mid west. |
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| Immigration movement 1880-1924 |
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| Single males from souther europe concentrated in industrial cities of northeast and midwest. |
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| Immigration movement of 1924 |
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60% of cities with populations of over 100,000 presented ethnic enclaves. (Assimilation/acculturation/biculturalism)
Chain migration. |
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| Individual moves from NY to Chicago to get a job. When they do well, family in NY moves to Chicago as well. |
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| Myth of less-educated/welfare-dependent population. Realistically, they are a mix of engineers, scientists, computer specialists. |
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1. Migration
2. Urbanization
3. Increasingly transnational nature of families
4. Remittances |
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| Married couples start to emphasize companionship and sexuality, effection becomes more open with children as well. |
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Idea that within a given family, family relationships are more important over the concerns of individual family members.
Very influential in the lives of Latinos. |
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