soc 110 (my notes)

• Family


  A group of two or more people connected by blood, adoption, marriage, or choice, who may rely on each other for social, emotional, and financial support
• Standard North American Family (SNAF)


  • Consists of a homemaker mother, a breadwinning father, and their [two] children; usually envisioned as white and middle class
• Personnel may often view non-SNAFs (e.g., families of color, immigrant families, or same-sex families) as deficient
• Because today most families are not SNAFs, contemporary Americans often feel that the traditional institution of family is "disintegrating" or falling apart in modern times
• Violent crime, teen births, and divorce rates have all been decreasing over the past decade
• The 1950s family was a brief blip on the radar and not representative of most Americans' experiences, either in the past or today
• Family processes


  Interactional variables like caring, sharing, and communicating, which are not always easily visible
• Family structure


  A family's composition, how many members it has, whether people are married, their ages, and other demographic variables
• Family health, success, and happiness don't depend exclusively on family structure
• Modern Family


  • A dual earner household where roles and responsibilities in the home are unequal, with the female partner still completing the majority of the housework and child care
• Post-Modern Family


  • A family where at least one element of the SNAF is deconstructed or transformed, such as having egalitarian gender roles, or consisting of a same sex couple or a father who remains single by choice
• Co-provider Family


  • A dual earner structure where both partners must work to sustain family livelihood and contribute to the family income
• Exogamy


  Marrying outside a specific circle of people
• Endogamy


  Marrying within a specific circle of people
• Polygamy


  The practice of one man marrying many women
• Polyandry


  The practice of one woman marrying more than one man
• Matriarchal


  A social system where women hold power and influence in the clan or family over men
• Matrifocal


  Men marry into their wife's family
• Matrilineal


  Property, privileges, and goods are passed down through the mother's family
• Patriarchal


  Men rule and enjoy power, privilege, and control over women and children
• Arranged marriage


  The wife and husband are chosen by family members, religious leaders, or cultural leaders
• Cultural Relativism


  Values, practices, and beliefs differ by cultural group and that none are better or worse than any others
• Human Rights


  An individual's freedom to make choices that make him/her happy without the threat of violence, ostracism, or psychological harm
• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child argues that all children in every culture have the rights to be loved and valued, to receive education, and to live a life free of violence or abuse of any kind
• The Filipino Family


  The basic unit of Philippine society, significant to the Filipino, and pervades social, political, religious, and economic aspects of our lives
• Social Structure


  The way in which component parts like statues, roles, values, norms, beliefs, and behavior patterns are arranged, interrelated, and organized
• Family


  A social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction; it includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, owned or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults
• At least 10% of the population is assumed to belong to nontraditional families (sans single or unmarried mother with children)
• Family


  Two or more persons who share resources, share responsibility for decisions, share values and goals, and have a commitment to each other over time
• Family


  Two or more persons related by mutual expectations of emotional and material support, their family-like behavior conveying mutual responsibility, intimacy and care on a continuing basis, regardless of their living arrangements
• Family as a Social Group


  • Families last for a considerably longer period of time than do most other social groups

  1. Families are intergenerational
  2. Families contain both biological and affinal relationships between members
  3. The biological (and affinal) aspect of families links them to a larger kinship organization (clan)
• Nuclear Family


  • Consists typically of a married man and woman with their offspring, considered the basic building block in family structures
• Family of Orientation


  The individual, their parents, and all their siblings - where the individual is born and reared
• Family of Procreation


  The individual, their spouse, and all their children - where the individual establishes their marriage
• Incest Taboo


  Prohibits an individual from marrying a member of their immediate family (family of orientation)
• Polygamous Family


  • EGO and all their families of procreation, but lacks continuity over generations since the merger only lasts as long as the common member of the polygamous spouse is alive
• Extended Family


  • Multiple nuclear families linked together by virtue or kinship bonds between parents and children and/or between siblings, continuous generation after generation
• Mag-anak


  The nuclear/elementary group of husband, wife, and unmarried children (whether natural or adopted)
• Mag-anak


  • They are linked together by certain bonds and by reciprocally supporting behavior
• Three main points of interaction in the Filipino family


  • Husband-Wife Relations
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Sibling Relations