Theories of Family
Marriage
Divorce
Childhood/Parenting
Etc.
100

This theory that emphasizes unequal power relationships and competition for scarce resources

What is Conflict Theory 

100

This type of marriage was based on emotional ties between husband and wife. A husband's breadwinning role was seen to complement a wife's homemaker role. 

What is Companionate Marriage

100

The type of divorce that considers marriage in its contexts, as a legal contract, regulated by the government. 

What is Legal divorce

100

This is how children internalize the gendered social order and learn a binary definition of gender. 

What is Gender socialization

100

This type of socialization is done within the family by a child's primary caregivers within their family

What is Primary Socialization

200

This theory understands life as a system of meanings created through social interaction with others and the world around us

What is Symbolic Interactionism
200

This type of marriage characterized American marriage pre-industrialization and was built on economic necessity, family obligations, and social regulations. 

What is Institutional marriage

200

This type of marriage requires couples to undergo premarital counseling and can only be dissolved on limited grounds (i.e., infidelity, abuse, felony convictions)

What is Covenant marriage

200

The type of parenting popular in middle-class families.

What is Concerted Cultivation

200

The main productive unit in Agrarian America before the industrial factory

What is the Family Farm

300

This theory explains how relationships are built through an exchange of resources

What is Social Exchange Theory

300

This type of marriage is based off an individual's expectations for their spouse meeting their emotional, social, sexual, financial, spirtual, and interpersonal needs. 

what is Individualized marriage

300

This type of divorce has economic implications, and often involves alimony and/or child support. 

What is Financial divorce

300

This type of parenting expects mothers to create a child-centered home. 

What is Intensive mothering

300

This type of socialization is done in institutions OUTSIDE of the family

What is Secondary socialization 

400

This theoretical framework compares society to an organism made up of many parts all important to overall functioning.

What is structural functionalism

400

This competing cultural model contrasts America's culture of marriage. 

What is Culture of individualism

400
Expansion of the legal citeria for divorce that allowed couples to split without having to prove that one spouse was at fault. 
What is No-Fault Divorce
400

Which social group has a hard time producing a single family wage

What is Working-class men

400

An individual's social position in society relating to their intersecting identities (i.e., race, gender, sexuality, class, ability)

What is social location

500

This version of feminist theory analyzes social inequality on the basis of the intersection of gender, race, class, and sexuality

Intersectional feminist theory/ Intersectionality/ Intersectional lens

500
Social scientists use this term to understand the structural patterns that shape our romantic choices. 

What is Marriage market

500

This group of co-parent put aside negative feelings from the divorce and worked together in parenting their child

What is Cooperative co-parent 

500

The type of parenting popular within the working-class

What is Accomplishment of Natural Growth

500

Tyler goes to Harvard and takes advanced classes in Latin and Ancient Greek. What form of capital is this?

What is Cultural capital

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