SOC 204 Final Exam

SOC 204: Sociology of Family Final Exam Flashcards

What is one of the three main tenets of intensive mothering?

Requires mothers to be selfless and self-sacrificing

Interactionist definitions of family focus on the expressive (love and care) and instrumental (doing things for each other) activities that take place among groups of two or more people, even in the absence of formal family roles or legal ties.

TRUE

The deductive approach to science often moves from abstract ideas expressed as a theory to observations recorded as data.

TRUE

Mixed methods research includes the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data.

TRUE

Structural-functionalism is a theoretical framework that sees society as an organism, made up of different parts that work together to support its functioning.

TRUE

Conflict theory is a theoretical framework that emphasizes the unequal power relationships and competition for scarce resources.

TRUE

Symbolic interactionism focuses on broader social institutions and structures

FALSE

Family and household are interchangeable concepts because they mean the same exact thing.

FALSE

The separate spheres ideology holds that the public sphere of work and the private sphere of home were dependent realms of existence, where the males and the females shared chores in the home, and there was no competition in the workplace.

FALSE

Sociologists always approach scientific reasoning inductively

FALSE

Socialization

Processes by which we learn and adapt to the ways of a given society or social group so as to adequately participate in it.

Racial Socialization

The subtle, overt, deliberate, and unintended mechanisms by which parents transmit idea about race to their children.

Gender Socialization

How children internalize the gendered social order

Peer Culture

The process by which children create and participate in their own unique peer cultures by creatively taking or appropriating information from the adult world to address their own concerns.

Ideologies of fatherhood and motherhood

Fatherhood was redefined to focus exclusively on economic providership, and motherhood was redefined to focus exclusively on caregiving.

Childlessness

People who do not or choose not to have children (usually highly educated, less religious, and less gender traditional)

Provider Role

Idea that men fulfill their family duties by acting as the primary breadwinner

Family Wage

Earning that are high enough to support a family

Intensive Mothering

Ideology of mothering that says that children are best cared for by mothers, that mothers should invest large amounts of time and energy into childrearing, and that mothering requires sacrifice.

Demographic Patterns in Fertility

Usually decline during recessions and have a slow rebound

Mother Worry

Mental labor that mothers do to manage the high expectations for being a good mother

Integrated motherhood

Assumed that mothers should be employed, that childcare was a shared responsibility of mothers, family members, and the community, and that economic self-reliance, not domestic dependence on a spouse (Common ideologies among African American mothers)

Immigration and Transnational Parenting

Transnational and multigenerational households

Second Shift

Housework that married women complete after their first shift of paid employment

Separate Spheres

Ideology that separated the masculine public sphere of work from the feminine private sphere of home. It developed in the 19th century in response to industrialization and urbanization.

Care Work

Work necessary to maintain a household and care for family members, including feeding work, housework, consumption work, kin work, and childcare.

Explanations of gaps in family work time

Time, availability, power dependency, and gender perspective