Life at Home - Basics of Sociology - Lecture Slides, Slides of Introduction to Sociology

Download Life at Home - Basics of Sociology - Lecture Slides and more Slides Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Family and Life at Home Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 2 Lesson Outline  What is the Family?  Diversity in Families  Sociological Perspectives on the family  Homogamy and Propinquity  Doing the work of the family  Family and the life course  Trouble in families  Divorce and break-up  Trends in American families  The postmodern family Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 5 What is the Family? (cont’d)  An extended family is a large group of relatives, usually including at least three generations living either in one household or in close proximity.  Kin is defined as relatives or relations, usually those related by common descent. Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 6 What is the Family? (cont’d)  A nuclear family is a familial form consisting of a father, mother and their biological children.  How common is this family type now? Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 7 Diversity in Families  Endogamy refers to marriage to someone within one’s social group (race, ethnicity, class, education, religion, region, or nationality).  Exogamy refers to marriage to someone from a different social group.  Which type is more common? Why? Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 10 Diversity in Families (cont’d)  The more common form of polygamy is polygyny, which a system of marriage that allows men to have multiple wives.  Polyandry, a system of marriage that allows women to have multiple husbands, is a more rare form of polygamy. Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 11 Sociological Perspectives on the Family  Structural Functionalism views the family as one of the basic institutions that keeps society running smoothly by providing functions such as producing and socializing children, economic production, instrumental and emotional support, and sexual control. Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 12 Sociological Perspectives on the Family (cont’d)  Conflict theorists believe that society revolves around conflict over scarce resources, and that conflict within the family is also about the competition for resources: time, energy, and the leisure to pursue recreational activities.  Inequality begins at home Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 15 Forming Relationships, Selecting Mates  The process of selecting mates is largely determined by society  Two concepts (homogamy and propinquity) tell us a lot about how this process works. Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 16 Forming Relationships, Selecting Mates (cont’d)  Homogamy means “like marries like,” and is demonstrated by the fact that we tend to choose mates who are similar to us in:  class, race, ethnicity, age, religion, education, and even levels of attractiveness.  Propinquity is the tendency to marry or have relationships with people in close geographic proximity. Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 17 Doing the Work of Family  Many types of work (both paid and unpaid) are necessary to keep a family operating.  These tasks can be either instrumental or expressive. Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 20 Doing the Work of Family (cont’d)  Women nowadays have two jobs: paid labor outside the home and unpaid labor inside the home.  Second shift (unpaid labor inside the home that is often expected of women after they get home from working at paid labor outside the home). Many women juggle full- time jobs with caring for their children and running their home with little help from their spouses. According to Arlie Hochschild, what are the consequences of the supermom strategy? Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 21 Trends in Housework since 1900 Docsity.com Eat Dinner at Home or Eat Out? Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 22 Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 25 Trouble in Families (cont’d)  Rates of domestic violence are about equal across racial and ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and religious groups.  People are more likely to be killed or attacked by family members than anyone else.  5.9 out of every 1,000 and 2.1 out of every 1,000 men experience domestic violence  60% of offenses occur between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. in the victim’s home  In 2005, 1,181 women and 329 men were killed by their intimate partners  Domestic violence calls are the single largest category of calls to the police  Only a very small number of domestic violence incidents are reported to the police  - National Institute of Justice Special Report June 2009 Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 26 Divorce and Breakups  As of March 2002, the U.S. Census reported that more than 123 million persons were married while about 21 million were divorced.  Research indicates that about 50 percent of all first marriages now end in divorce and most who divorce remarry. Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 27 U.S. Divorce Rate Over the Past Century Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 30 Trends in American Families  About 5% of all households are occupied by couples who are cohabitating (living together as a romantically involved, unmarried couple). Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 31 Cohabitation in the United States Docsity.com Introduction to Sociology: Life at Home 32 Trends in American Families (cont’d)  Increases in the numbers of:  Single people.  People who are cohabitating  Single parents  People who are living in intentional communities (any of a variety of groups who form communal living arrangements outside marriage). Docsity.com