FMSC 110 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Malnutrition, World-Systems Theory, United Nations
12 Oct 2018
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FMSC 110
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
FMSC 110S (0101)
Family Science August 30, 2018
Dr Maring
Day Two: Focus on the Family
➔ What is family?
◆ Biology: heterosexual couples mate and produce offspring
◆ Sociology
● Traditionally: shared residence, economically interdependent, one or more
children (biological or adopted)
● Today: separated families, not always economically interdependent, same
sex couples, couples with no children, unmarried individuals, single
parents
Family is a group of 2+ people who share a close bond as a result of an intimate history
and/or biology.
➔ Types of Family
◆ Nuclear: one or two adults living in an intimate relationship with biological or
adoptive children
◆ Kinship/fictive kin: chosen family (ie. an aunt who is not blood related)
◆ Extended family: people with a common lineage, combined nuclear families with
primary connection through parent/child relationships
➔ Power & Authority
◆ Patriarchies: authority held by eldest male; men hold greater power than women
◆ Egalitarian society
◆ Matriarchies: authority held by eldest female, even with matrilineal descent
power is held by men, daughters are expected to care for aging parents
➔ Marriage
◆ Formal ceremonies and established norms about marriage
◆ Socially constructed rules of what defines marriage
● Romantic/love marriage
● Arranged marriage
● Same sex marriage
● Man/woman
● Monogamy
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● Serial monogamy (getting married, divorced, and remarried)
● Polygamy
➔ Descent
◆ Bilineal: parentage through both mother and father’s sides
◆ Patrilineal: woman marries into husband’s family and children becomes
members of father’s family
● Dowry: wife’s family gifts husband’s family as a token of appreciation for
‘accepting’ bride into the new home/family
● Bride price: husband’s family gifts wife’s family as a gesture to fill a void
that daughter has left her family
● Matrilineal: lineage/inheritance through mother’s line
➔ Functions of the Family
◆ Procreation: children are born and raised
● Variability in how babies are born
◆ Socialization: process of learning who people are supposed to be in their
society/social group
● Dependent upon race, class, gender
● Gender stereotypes
◆ Division of labor: specialized economic activity that people perform in society
◆ Regulation of sexual behavior: premarital sex, postmarital sex
● Keeping women “pure”
◆ Care/economic provision of family members: resources and how they’re used
● Families share this role with the government
◆ Affectional/emotional needs: families are generally structured to provide
affection
● Caretaker role varies by family
◆ Status giving qualities of families: positions recognized by society
● Ascribed status: status one is born with
● Achieved status: status one can change based on ability and means for
mobility
● Social mobility
➔ Social Change: transformation of a society that alters the patterns of people’s
interactions
◆ Unplanned/planned, revolutionary/evolutionary
◆ Can occur on both a societal and cultural level
◆ 3 levels of social change in society (all 3 are required for change to occur)
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Document Summary
Biology: heterosexual couples mate and produce offspring. Traditionally: shared residence, economically interdependent, one or more children (biological or adopted) Today: separated families, not always economically interdependent, same sex couples, couples with no children, unmarried individuals, single parents. Family is a group of 2+ people who share a close bond as a result of an intimate history and/or biology. Nuclear: one or two adults living in an intimate relationship with biological or adoptive children. Kinship/fictive kin: chosen family (ie. an aunt who is not blood related) Extended family: people with a common lineage, combined nuclear families with primary connection through parent/child relationships. Patriarchies: authority held by eldest male; men hold greater power than women. Matriarchies: authority held by eldest female, even with matrilineal descent power is held by men, daughters are expected to care for aging parents. Formal ceremonies and established norms about marriage. Socially constructed rules of what defines marriage. Serial monogamy (getting married, divorced, and remarried)
