The Gender of Marriage and Families

Flashcards of key vocabulary terms from the lecture notes.

Social Institutions

Patterned behaviors that provide a guide for accomplishing something in society.

Companionate Marriage

Emergence of modern marriage based on love and compatibility.

Marriage Gradient

A pattern in which women tend to marry up while men marry down in mate selection.

Endogamy

The tendency to marry only others within the same social group.

Diaspora

The worldwide scattering of a nationality or ethnic group.

Transnational Marriage

Marriages in which couples reside in different countries.

Remittances

Money and income immigrants send back to their families in their country of origin.

Yokemate

Term used by European serfs to refer to each other due to shared workload.

Androcentrism

The idea that men and masculinity are better than women and femininity.

Doctrine of Separate Spheres

Ideology that a man’s duty is to be a breadwinner and a woman’s duty is to be a good wife and mother.

Public Sphere

The world of market relations and productive behavior, labeled as distinctly masculine.

Private Sphere

Primarily the home and family life; this became defined as the place where women belonged.

Domestic Feminism

Belief that women's moral superiority suited them for educating and disciplining children.

Good Provider Role

A man's primary obligation is to work to meet his family’s material needs.

Big Wheel

Element of masculinity measured by power, success, wealth, and status.

Doing Gender Perspective

The most important location for gender is within our day-to-day interactions.

Families of Choice

Familial ties with friends, neighbors, and coworkers.

Postmodern Family

A changing, unsettled recombination of different family forms.

Nuclear Family

Husband and wife living in the same house with their biological children.

Gendercide

The killing of a specific gender group.