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CHAPTER 12 The Family

CHAPTER 12 The Family. Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective Section 2: The American Family. Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Objectives:. Describe the norms that influence the ways in which marriage patterns are organized around the world.

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CHAPTER 12 The Family

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  1. CHAPTER 12The Family Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective Section 2: The American Family

  2. Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective Objectives: • Describe the norms that influence the ways in which marriage patterns are organized around the world. • Identify the basic societal needs that the institution of the family satisfies.

  3. Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective Norms and Marriage Patterns Around the World • Number of marriage partners – in industrialized nations marriages are usually monogamous whereas in pre-industrial societies the normal pattern is polygyny • Residential Patterns – once individuals are married they must decide where to live

  4. Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective Norms and Marriage Patterns Around the World (continued) • Descent Patterns – in some societies people trace kinship through the father’s side of the family, in others descent is traced through the mother’s side of the family or through both parents • Authority Patterns – the three basic types are patriarchy, matriarchy and egalitarian

  5. Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective Basic Needs Provided by the Family • Regulation of sexual activity – enforce incest taboo which is a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives • Reproduction – societies establish norms governing childbearing and child rearing

  6. Section 1: The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective Basic Needs Provided by the Family (continued) • Socialization – children must be taught the ways of the society into which they were born • Economic and Emotional Security – family acts as the basic economic unit in society and in most cases labor is divided on the basis of gender

  7. Section 2: The American Family Objectives: • Explain how American families begin and describe some of the disruptions they might face. • Analyze some of the trends in American family life currently being examined by sociologists.

  8. Section 2: The American Family Beginnings of the American Family and Disruptions • Marriage begins with courtship and marriage between either homogamous or heterogamous couples • Disruptions include family violence, divorce, empty nest, return of adult children and death of a spouse

  9. Section 2: The American Family Sociologists Examine Trends in American Family Life • Delayed Marriages – current trend is to marry later in life and being single has become an acceptable alternative to being married • Delayed Childbearing – women are delaying childbirth to complete their education and establish a career • Childlessness – couples are making the conscious choice to remain voluntarily childless

  10. Section 2: The American Family Sociologists Examine Trends in American Family Life (continued) • Dual-Earner Marriages – increase in the number of dual-earner marriages due to the increased number of women entering the workforce • One-Parent Families – come about in various ways such as divorce, death of a spouse, births to unwed mothers or adoption by unmarried individuals • Remarriage – the majority of people who get divorcedabout 75 percentget remarried

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