Sociology:Family & Relationships

Dive into the sociology of family! Learn definitions, theories, and key terms.

What is Family?Fill in the blanks with the best response. The U.S. Census Bureau defines family as two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption living in the same household. According to sociologists, a family is defined as a social group whose members are bound by legal, biological, or emotional ties, or a combination of all three. Theories About Family Marriage: Crash Course Sociology #37 (10:59 minutes) After watching the video please answer the following multiple choice questions. A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption is called? Family Kinship Fictive Kin The family that you grow up in is known as? Fictive Family Extended family Family of Orientation What term refers to marriage to someone within one’s social group (such as race, ethnicity, class, education, religion, region, or nationality). Endogamy Exogamy Monogamy A term that refers to marriage to someone within one’s social group (such as race, ethnicity, class, education, religion, region, or nationality). Endogamy Exogamy Monogamy A legal system of marriage that allows people to have more than one spouse at a time (found in a majority of African countries and some South Asian countries) is called what? Monogamy Polygamy Polyamory: This views the family as one of the basic institutions that keeps society running smoothly by providing functions such as producing and socializing children, economic production, instrumental and emotional support, and sexual control. Structural functionalism Conflict theorists Symbolic interactionists This believes that society revolves around conflict over scarce resources, and that conflict within the family is also about the competition for resources: time, energy, and the leisure to pursue recreational activities. Structural functionalism Conflict theorists Symbolic interactionists This 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. Structural functionalism Conflict theorists Symbolic interactionists From the time of slavery through the 1960s, many states had laws that prohibited interracial marriage, cohabitation, or sexual interaction. These laws were effectively ended by the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). This was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, by a 9–0 vote, declared Virginia’s statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, unconstitutional, thereby ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. What is the term for the prohibition of interracial marriage, cohabitation, or sexual interaction Exogamy Antimiscegenation Polyamory Sociology~ Family and relationships Match the terms with the appropriate meaning. Extended family It is a large group of kin, defined as relatives or relations usually related by common descent. Extended families usually including at least three generations living either in one household or in close proximity Nuclear family A heterosexual couple with one or more children living in a single household Feminist and queer theorists + Family Examine how assumptions about gender and sexuality affect family relationships. Propinquity It is the tendency to marry or have relationships with people in close geographic proximity. Polyamory A system of multiple-person partnership Second shift Unpaid labor inside the home that is often expected of women after they get home from working at paid labor outside the home. Your Family Draw a picture of your family. Remeber that stick figures are fine...effort counts!