Chapter Eleven: Family
· Family - Two or more individuals who identify themselves as being related to one
another, usually by blood, marriage, or adoption.
· Marriage - A culturally approved relationship, usually between two individuals, that
provides a framework for economic cooperation, emotional intimacy, and sexual relations.
· Monogamy, polygamy - forms of marriage (mono= 1 person, poly= more than 1 person)
· Endogamy, exogamy - characteristic of marriage (endogamy= Limited to members of the
same social group or caste)
· Antimiscegnation laws- Extended and nuclear Laws prohibiting interracial sexual
relations and marriage.
· Functionalist perspective on family functions - “Factory of personalities”; families
functions to produce males and females that are prepared to pursue and fulfil different roles in
society.
· Conflict/feminist perspectives on family functions:
o Sexual division of labor- The phenomenon of dividing production functions by gender
and designating different spheres of activity
o His/hers marriage- an analysis on marriage that explores the issue of equality in
marriage, it states that the husband and wife experience different marriages.
o Psychodynamic perspective - Sociological analysis on why women mother. What
explains the biological and psychological effects of infancy and motherhood.
· Changing family
o Age of first marriage - age of first marriage is getting higher and higher every year.
o Household structure - A typical family is drifting away from the ‘nuclear family’ ideal
and becoming much more diverse.
o Women as breadwinners- The percent of breadwinner mothers is getting higher and
higher each year.
· Social class and parenting:
o Concerted cultivation- The style of parenting associated most fully with the middle
class and characterized by an emphasis on negotiation, discussion, questioning
authority, and cultivation of talents and skills through, among other things, participation
and organized activities
o Accomplishment of natural growth- A parenting style associated with working class
and poor families.Focus on obedience, inclination to care for children basic need, leave
children to play and grow in a largely unstructured environment.
Chapter Twelve: Education
· Education-The transmission of society's norms, values and knowledge base by means of
direct instruction
· Credential society & functionalist views-A function of mass education is to socialize
members of a society into the norms and values necessary to produce and maintain social
solidarity
· Family - Two or more individuals who identify themselves as being related to one
another, usually by blood, marriage, or adoption.
· Marriage - A culturally approved relationship, usually between two individuals, that
provides a framework for economic cooperation, emotional intimacy, and sexual relations.
· Monogamy, polygamy - forms of marriage (mono= 1 person, poly= more than 1 person)
· Endogamy, exogamy - characteristic of marriage (endogamy= Limited to members of the
same social group or caste)
· Antimiscegnation laws- Extended and nuclear Laws prohibiting interracial sexual
relations and marriage.
· Functionalist perspective on family functions - “Factory of personalities”; families
functions to produce males and females that are prepared to pursue and fulfil different roles in
society.
· Conflict/feminist perspectives on family functions:
o Sexual division of labor- The phenomenon of dividing production functions by gender
and designating different spheres of activity
o His/hers marriage- an analysis on marriage that explores the issue of equality in
marriage, it states that the husband and wife experience different marriages.
o Psychodynamic perspective - Sociological analysis on why women mother. What
explains the biological and psychological effects of infancy and motherhood.
· Changing family
o Age of first marriage - age of first marriage is getting higher and higher every year.
o Household structure - A typical family is drifting away from the ‘nuclear family’ ideal
and becoming much more diverse.
o Women as breadwinners- The percent of breadwinner mothers is getting higher and
higher each year.
· Social class and parenting:
o Concerted cultivation- The style of parenting associated most fully with the middle
class and characterized by an emphasis on negotiation, discussion, questioning
authority, and cultivation of talents and skills through, among other things, participation
and organized activities
o Accomplishment of natural growth- A parenting style associated with working class
and poor families.Focus on obedience, inclination to care for children basic need, leave
children to play and grow in a largely unstructured environment.
Chapter Twelve: Education
· Education-The transmission of society's norms, values and knowledge base by means of
direct instruction
· Credential society & functionalist views-A function of mass education is to socialize
members of a society into the norms and values necessary to produce and maintain social
solidarity
