Module 8 - Family Institution

Successful Families

Provide emotional support for family members, take care of elders, raise next generation, are inclusive

Stem/Extended Families

Parent(s), children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins

Nuclear Families

Parent(s) and children

Blended Families

Reconstituted families

Simple Households

unrelated adults with/without children

Complex Households

2+ adults who are (un)related but not married (expected to live separately)

Multigenerational Households

Multiple generations living together

Euro-Canadian Nuclear Families

Typical western families including two-married parents + children

Heterogenous Families

Diverse in structure, through blended families, same-sex/cohabiting couple families, etc.

Conjual/Marital Roles

Distinctive roles of husband/wife that result in the division of labour within a family

Segregated Roles

tasks, interests, and activities that are clearly different

Joint Roles

tasks, interests, and activities that are shared

Complementary Roles

Casts men primary as breadwinners and women as unpaid houseworkers and childcare

Companionate Roles

Breadwinning and caretaking roles overlap

Double Burden/Second Shift

Woman works a paid job but also does most unpaid housework and childcare

Double Ghetto

Marginalization of working women's experience inside and outside the home

Gender strategy

Plan of action through which a person tried to solve problems at hand, given cultural notions of gender at play

Occupational Segregation

Encouraged by childcare responsibilities

Endogamy

Marrying someone of the same cultural group

Exogamy

Marrying outside one's cultural group