A social group whose members are bound by legal, biological, or emotional ties, or a combination of all three.
What is Family?
100
A system of marriage that allows people to have more than one spouse at a time. It is practiced among some subcultures around the world, but is not widely acknowledged as a legitimate form of marriage.
What is Polygamy?
100
Views the family as one of the basic institutions that keeps society running smoothly
What is Structural Functionalism?
100
Includes behaviors abusers use to gain and maintain power over their victims. It can be sexual, verbal, physical, finical, or psychological.
What is Domestic Violence?
100
Unpaid labor inside the home that is often expected of women after they get home from working at paid labor outside the home.
What is Second Shift?
200
A heterosexual couple with one or more children living in a single household.
What is a Nuclear Family?
200
The practice of marrying (or being in a relationship with) one person at a time, is still considered the only legal form of marriage in modern western culture.
What is Monogamy?
200
Examines the types of social dynamics and interactions that create and sustain families, emphasizing the ways that our experiences of family bonds are socially created rather than naturally existing.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
200
Where the relationship seems normal.
What is Stage 1?
200
Refers to the emotional work necessary to support family members for example: remembering a relative’s birthday or playing with the kids.
What is Expressive Tasks?
300
Refers to marriage to someone from a different social group.
What is Exogamy?
300
A system of marriage that allows women to have multiple husbands. It is more a rare form of polygamy.
What is Polyandry?
300
Believes that society revolves around conflict over scarce resources, and that conflict within the family is also about the competition for resources.
What is Conflict Theory?
300
The victim feels like "walking on eggshells" to avoid arguments.
What is Stage 2?
300
Refers to the practical physical tasks necessary to maintain family life for example: washing dishes and cutting grass.
What is Instrumental Tasks?
400
Refers to marriage to someone within one's social group (race, ethnicity, class, religion, nationality, or education).
What is Endogamy?
400
A system of marriage that allows men to have multiple wives.
What is Polygyny?
400
This theory seeks competition for things such as time, energy, and the leisure to pursue recreational activities.
What is Conflict Theory?
400
Acute battering and violence occurs, lasting for seconds, hours, or even days. The abuser blames the victim.
What is Stage 3?
400
The tendency to marry or have relationships with people in close geographic proximity.
What is Propinquity?
500
Laws that prohibited interracial marriage, cohabitation, or sexual interaction.
What is Antimiscegenation?
500
Considered the only legal form of marriage in modern western culture in which marriage is between two people.
What is Monogamy?
500
This theory provides functions such as producing and socializing children, economic production, instrumental and emotional support, and sexual control.
What is Structural Functionalism?
500
The abuser apologizes profusely and promises that it will never happen again.
What is Stage 4?
500
Means “like marries like,” and is demonstrated by the fact that we tend to choose mates who are similar to us in age, race, ethnicity, class, religion, education, and even levels of attractiveness.