SOC 201A
Chapter 11
Study Guide
- family
- kinship
- a marriage
- nuclear family
- extended family
- family of orientation
- family of procreation
- monogamy
- polygamy
- polygyny
- polyandry
- functionalism
- primary socialization
- personality stabilization
- industrial
- during the 1970s and 1980s, feminist perspectives
- feminist understanding of the family
- feminism
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, “the problem with no name”
- changes in household size throughout the history of the United States
- American families in the colonial era
- changes that are occurring in the family globally
- change related to the creation of a worldwide movement toward the predominance of the nuclear family and the breakdown of extended-family systems and other types of kinship groups
- About what percent of American adults in their mid-fifties are or have previously been married?
- In 2017, the median age for first marriage was ________ for men and ________ for women.
- the global trend toward later marriages in the last several decades
- staying unmarried
- differences between black and white family formations
- Which group has the highest rate of intermarriage?
- Puerto Rican Americans
- Cuban Americans
- recent research on online dating
- divorce
- relationship between income and post-divorce situations
- reasons why divorce rates increased so steeply in the 1960s and 1970s
- factors that decrease the likelihood that a person will get a divorce
- Judith Wallerstein
- stepfamilies
- single-parent households
- child abuse
- neglect
- A 1985 study by Murray Straus found that ________ percent of married people reported at least one incident of intimate partner violence at some point in their marriage.
- patriarchal terrorism
- common couple violence
- cohabitation
- trends related to cohabiting
- second-parent adoptions
- Eric Klinenberg’s research
- difficulty calculating the rate of childlessness
- being single