Family Structures & Definitions
The Vanier Institute defines a family as any combination of two or more persons bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth, and/or__________
What is adoption/placement?
An infertile couple using basal body temperature or a couple waiting at the airport for an adoptive baby represents this function of the family.
What is Population / Reproduction?
In hunter-gatherer societies, women supplied this fraction of the total calories consumed by the group.
What is 2/3 (two-thirds)?
This theory holds that your birth order position shapes your development and personality.
What is Adlerian Theory?
This theory focuses on how individuals assign subjective meanings, symbols, and shared definitions to their daily interactions with family members
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
This family structure consists of two married parents (mother & father) living with their biological children.
What is a Nuclear Family?
A single mom staying up all night with a sick baby or a teen going to the store for an injured relative fulfills this function.
What is Providing Care?
In these families, men established a patriarchy to ensure known fatherhood and orderly inheritance as communities stabilized to farm.
What are Agricultural Families?
According to Adler, it is a common misconception that children in the same family are formed in the same environment because this situation differs for each child.
Answer: What is the psychological situation?
According to Adlerian Theory, this psychological variable leads two children from the same biological family to develop markedly different personalities.
What is the psychological situation (or birth order succession)?
This family structure features 2 or 3 generations living under the exact same roof.
What is a Multi-Generational or Extended Family?
Teaching a toddler to say "please" and "thank you" or helping a child with a school science project falls under this family function.
What is Socialization?
During this era, compulsory education was instituted in Ontario (1871) for children under the age of 14, giving birth to the "Age of Innocence."
What is the Industrial Nuclear Family era?
Standard behaviors or values held by a group that are considered typical or normal, whether stated openly or unspoken.
What are Norms?
In Social Exchange Theory, a person will choose to leave a relationship if the costs exceed the overall rewards.
What are the costs?
A structure where a child is temporarily placed with a family until "family problems" are settled or until they are adopted.
What is a Foster Family?
A mother coaching her daughter through anxiety before a big presentation is an example of this function.
What is Affective Nurturance?
In this Canadian historical family model, men were property owners, and women and children were legally considered their property.
What are Pre-Industrial Canadian Families?
The specific part each person takes on to get things to happen, which can be volunteered or assigned and evolves over time.
What are Roles?
Feminist theory critically analyzes how this male-dominated household structure historically deprived women and children of legal rights.
What is Patriarchy?
This family structure occurs when one or both parents were previously married, bringing children from that marriage into the new family unit.
What is a Step/Blended Family?
Postponing a personal wardrobe purchase to pay for a child's piano lessons represents this function
What is the Economic function?
In contemporary Canadian families, the distribution and use of this became legal in 1965.
What is the Birth Control Pill?
Something group members assume will happen; when left unspoken, these often become a major cause of conflict.
What are Expectations?
Functionalists argue that when families fail to properly perform socialization and behavior control, society experiences imbalance or instability.
What is Social Dysfunction (or Breakdown of Order)?