Family and Society Midterm Review Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key concepts, theoretical terms, and researchers from the SOCI-130-002 Fall 2026 Midterm Review lecture notes.

Epistemology

The study or theory of knowledge and how we determine what is true, as discussed in Cohen's reading 'How Do We Tell What's True?'

Symbolic Indulgence

A practice described by Janning in 'The Stuff of Holidays' involving gift purchases for children that link materialism, spoiled kids, and definitions of 'good' parenting.

Tangle of Pathology

A controversial phrase used in Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report to describe systemic issues attributed to Black family structure and poverty.

Success Sequence

The cultural concept discussed by Williams, Sanner, Jensen, and Simon promoting the idea that completing specific milestones, such as marriage, serves as the solution to family poverty.

Healthy Marriage Initiative

A government-backed program analyzed by Williams et al. aimed at promoting marriage to solve poverty, evaluated for its efficacy and assumptions about Black family structure.

Child-Savers

Historical reformers discussed by Mintz who pushed to protect youth, outlaw child labor, and reshape childhood into a stage requiring innocence and defense.

Intensive Parenting

A class-specific child-rearing approach conceptualized by Annette Lareau involving deliberate, highly structured cultivation of children's skills and activities.

Exclusionists

One of three definition groups identified by Geist et al. that maintains strict, traditional requirements for what living arrangements count as a family.

Moderates

One of three definition groups identified by Geist et al. whose criteria for what constitutes a family fall between strict traditionalists and flexible inclusionists.

Inclusionists

One of three definition groups identified by Geist et al. that holds expansive definitions of family, encompassing diverse and non-traditional living arrangements.

Genetic Strangers

A term used by Hertz and Risman in 'Random Families' to describe biological relatives who connect through donor sibling networks without previous personal ties.

Modern Marriage

As defined by Franklin, a dual-career partnership model that developed with distinct historical patterns among African American and white couples.

Marriage Squeeze

A demographic imbalance discussed by Franklin regarding partner availability and shifting marriage rates among African Americans.

Dividend Effect

A finding in Curington, Lin, and Lindquist's research where specific multiracial daters gain relative advantages or bonus points within online dating hierarchies.

Chosen Family

A concept originated by Weston (1991) and discussed by Brainer describing supportive networks formed by LGBTQ+ individuals outside of biological ties.

Spoiled Sexual Self

A concept in Nack's research on sexual health examining how STI diagnoses and societal stigma alter an individual's view of their sexual identity.

Orgasm Gap

The documented disparity in frequency of sexual pleasure and orgasms between men and women, analyzed by Armstrong et al. and Andrejek.

Second Shift

A term originally coined by Hochschild and applied by Garcia to study unpaid household labor performed by Latina mothers and daughters alongside paid work.

Epiphany Day

The specific moment identified in Meadows' research when parents recognize their child's identity as trans rather than viewing their behavior as temporary gender atypicality.

Giving Gender

Jane Ward's concept, featured in Meadows' study, describing parental actions that actively validate and affirm a trans child's gender identity.

Symbolic Ethnicity

A sociological concept examined by Quiroz regarding voluntary or nostalgic ethnic identification among adoptive families.

Neoethnics

A term used by Quiroz to refer to transnationally adopted children as a unique group of involuntary migrants raised across cultural boundaries.

Racial Socialization

The process described by Holloway and Varner where Black parents communicate cultural history and prepare adolescents for potential racial bias based on their own experiences.

Compulsory Kinship

A normative pressure discussed by Bosley-Smith and Reczek that prompts LGBTQ+ individuals to engage in conflict work to preserve relationships with problematic parents.

Pronatalism

An ideology or policy platform advocating higher birthrates, analyzed by Root, Guzzo, Clark, and Sussman in response to concerns over population decline.