MARRIAGE AND FAMILY Journal: Why are families important?
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KEY DEFINITIONS:
A family is:
Any group related by marriage, blood or adoption
Marriage—legal union with mutual rights & obligations
Civil union-recognition of association by state DNR Medical care Insurance benefits taxes
2 TYPES OF FAMILIES
ORIENTATION
BORN INTO THIS FAMILY
GIVES NAME, IDENTITY & HERITAGE
PROCREATION
ESTABLISHED BY MARRIAGE
ESTABLISHED BY CIVIL
UNION???
2 TYPES OF FAMILIES
Nuclear
1 or both parents+ kids
Close knit?
Extended
2 or more adult generations
Share economic resources& common household
FAMILIES THRU TIME
HUNTING & GATHERING
• Small families• Follow herd• Little food stability---low life expectancy
FARMING
• Larger families• More food----more kids, higher life
expectancy• Extended family need to help farm
INDUSTRIAL
& POST INDUSTRIAL
• Smaller families• Kids not needed on farm• Kids are $$$
PATTERNS OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS--
INHERITANCE
PATRILINEAL
MATRILINEAL
BILATERAL
AUTHORITY
MATRIARCHY
PATRIARCHY
EGALITARIAN
WHERE YOU LIVE?
PATRILOCAL
MATRILOCAL
NEOLOCAL
WHOM DO YOU MARRY?
EXOGAMY OR ENDOGAMY MARRY OUTSIDE KIND OR GROUP—INCEST OR MARRY WITHIN YOUR OWN KIND
RACE, SOCIAL CLASS
HOMOGAMY OR HETEROGAMY MARRY SOMEONE LIKE YOU—EDUCATION,
RELIGION, AGE, POSSIBLY RACE
MARRY SOMONE DIFFERENT THAN YOU- ARTIST MARRIES CEO MORE SO FOR INTERESTS & EDUCATION
ARRANGED MARRIAGES VS. MARRYING FOR LOVE
• 25% OF MARRIAGES IN JAPAN ARE ARRANGED
• CONSIDER INCOME, EDUCATION, WEALTH
• MORE OF A BOND BETWEEN FAMILIES
ARRANGED MARRIAGES
• INCREASING TREND FOR US COUPLES TO MARRY SOMEONE DIFFERENT
• 50% DIVORCE RATE • BONDING OF PEOPLE NOT
FAMILIES
MARRYING FOR LOVE
THEORIES ON FAMILY-CONFLICT
Tradition of male
dominance
-creates social
inequalities
Feminism-emphasis
on control of private proerty-women
have education/c
areers
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISMWHAT DO FAMILIES DO?
1-DEVELOP SELF CONCEPT
2-VIOLENCE-SECRETIVE ¼ OF ALL ADULTS WERE ABUSED 1 OUT OF EVERY 4 GIRLS; 1 OUT OF 10 BOYS—
SEXUALLY ABUSED 4 MIL WOMEN BEATEN BY HUSBAND EACH YR. ALL SOCIAL CLASS LEVELS—MORE PUBLIC 1/3 OF ALL HUSBANDS & 1/3 OF ALL WIVES VIOLENT OTHERS-EMOTIONAL & VERBAL ELDERLY
3-ADJUSTMENTS TO CHANGES SOCIETY CHANGES-----FAMILIES CHANGE
2ND THEORY—FUNCTIONALISM
KEY FUNCTIONS OF THE FAMILY 1-SOCIALIZE KIDS 2-SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT 3-REPRODUCTIVE 4-REGULATE SEXUAL ACTIVITY 5-TRANSMIT SOCIAL STATUS 6-ECONOMIC UNIT
PATTERN FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES
NUCLEAR BILATERAL DEMOCRATIC NEOLOCAL MONOGAMOUS
83% OF PEOPLE RATE BEING IN LOVE AS THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON TO MARRY
WHAT ABOUT CONFORMITY?
WHY DO PEOPLE MARRY?
83% OF PEOPLE RATE BEING IN LOVE AS THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON TO MARRY
OTHER REASONS: 1-CONFORMITY 2-ECONOMICS