Exam 15: Families and Intimate Relationships

In regard to housework,sociologist Arlie Hochschild notes that:

With the advent of industrialization and urbanization,maintaining the __________ family pattern becomes more difficult in societies.Increasingly,young people move from rural to urban areas in search of employment in the industrializing sector of the economy.At that time,the __________ family typically becomes the predominant family pattern in the society.

Incest taboos that prohibit sexual contact or marriage between certain relatives would be an example of which key function of family?

Recently the Census Bureau has begun to use a more inclusive definition of __________,referring to it as a couple who live together without being legally married.

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild refers to the __________ as the domestic work that employed women perform at home after they complete their workday on the job.

Infertility is defined as an inability to conceive after a year of unprotected sexual relations.Today,infertility affects nearly __________ percent of U.S.couples in which the wife is between the ages of 15 and 44.

The sociology of family is the subdiscipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variations in family structure.

The __________ is the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place.

Women on average are now having _________ children each.

Describe the process of developing intimate relationships and establishing families.

Apply the functional perspective on families.

Polyandry is very rare; when it does occur,it is typically found in societies where men greatly outnumber women because of high rates of female infanticide or where marriages are arranged between two brothers and one woman.

Discuss child-related family issues and parenting.

The cost of maintenance and a nearly balanced sex ratio in a geographical area tends to limit this type of marriage.

The __________ explains family relationships in terms of the subjective meanings and everyday interpretations that people give to their lives.

The text points out that conflict and feminist analysts:

Although most people are related to members of their family of orientation by blood ties,those who are adopted have a legal tie that is patterned after a blood relationship.

In 2010,more than 75 percent of employed mothers with children under age six worked full time.

According to sociologist Talcott Parsons,the husband/father fulfills the __________ (meeting the family's economic needs,making important decisions,and providing leadership).

Another characteristic of the postmodern family is modernity,where the boundaries between the public sphere (the workplace) and the private sphere (the home) are becoming much more open and flexible.