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Family Definitions and Concepts: A Comprehensive Glossary, Quizzes of Family Sociology

Definitions and explanations for various terms related to family, including traditional and non-traditional family structures, functions of families, and family systems theory. It covers concepts such as marriage, kinship systems, and the ecological model of family.

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TERM 1
supplemental reading in textbook
DEFINITION 1
pages. 30-40 in Marriages and Families: Changes, Choices,
and Constraints 7th edition
TERM 2
family
DEFINITION 2
Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption,
whom support each other and bear/raise children
TERM 3
traditional family
DEFINITION 3
husband is breadwinner, wife is homemaker, and children
(28% of American families in 2007)
TERM 4
non-family
DEFINITION 4
roommates, live alone, cohabitating
TERM 5
why does definition of family matter?
DEFINITION 5
social security laws, health and dental benefits,
hospital/health care/legal/educational decision-making
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supplemental reading in textbook

pages. 30-40 in Marriages and Families: Changes, Choices,

and Constraints 7th edition

TERM 2

family

DEFINITION 2

Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption,

whom support each other and bear/raise children

TERM 3

traditional family

DEFINITION 3

husband is breadwinner, wife is homemaker, and children

(28% of American families in 2007)

TERM 4

non-family

DEFINITION 4

roommates, live alone, cohabitating

TERM 5

why does definition of family matter?

DEFINITION 5

social security laws, health and dental benefits,

hospital/health care/legal/educational decision-making

Benokraitis's definition of family

intimate group of two or more people, live together in

commited relationship,care for each other and any

children,share activities and emotional ties

TERM 7

fictive kin

DEFINITION 7

non-relatives accepted b/c of strong bonds with biological

family members, and provide important services and care

(e.g. neighbors, family friends)

TERM 8

family of origin

DEFINITION 8

biological parents and relatives

TERM 9

family of

orientation

DEFINITION 9

parents with adopted children

TERM 10

family of procreation

DEFINITION 10

leaving parents and creating your own family

endogamy

married to someone of same race and religion

TERM 17

homogamy

DEFINITION 17

married to someone with similar traits

TERM 18

exogamy

DEFINITION 18

married to someone from a differenttribe or social class(also

called interracial marriage)

TERM 19

heterogamy

DEFINITION 19

married to someone with different traits than you

TERM 20

five functions of family

DEFINITION 20

regulate sexual activity,procreation and socialization of

children,economic support,emotional support,social class

placement

patrilocal

families

newly-weds live with husband's family

TERM 22

matrilocal

families

DEFINITION 22

newly-weds live with wife's family

TERM 23

neolocal

families

DEFINITION 23

newly-weds live in their own residence (most common in

industrialized countries)

TERM 24

patriarchy authority

DEFINITION 24

oldest males control resources

TERM 25

matriarchy authority

DEFINITION 25

oldest females control resources

ecological model

created by Urie Bronfenbrenner,nested set of structures (like

Russian dolls, one inside another)

TERM 32

microsystem

DEFINITION 32

face to face setting,family, school, work, church, etc.,child

affects and is affected directly

TERM 33

mesosystem

DEFINITION 33

Between two or more systems,home and school is prime

example,

TERM 34

exosystem

DEFINITION 34

two or more systems not directly related to developing

child,still indirectly influences child,parent's workplace,

neighborhood, family social networks

TERM 35

macrosystem

DEFINITION 35

culture, bodies of knowledge, technological changes,

recessions, etc.,basically a societal blueprint for culture

chronosystem

changes that occur over time for person and environment,

such as SES, employment, family structure, and residence

TERM 37

system

DEFINITION 37

interatted elements that make a family a system

TERM 38

family system theory

DEFINITION 38

from general systems theory,family is unit of

analysis,patterns of interactions that change over time,and

components of family all affect each other

TERM 39

subsystems

DEFINITION 39

two or three more people,own rules and boundaries

TERM 40

executive

subsystem

DEFINITION 40

parental/spousal subsystem

rigid boundaries

poor communication b/w family members, little change in

family system, often in dysfunctional or abusive families

TERM 47

where child's problems come from

DEFINITION 47

usually a result of conflict in family system (drugs/alcohol,

abuse, etc.)

TERM 48

equifinality

DEFINITION 48

many beginnings but same ending (different kids, but all

graduate same year)

TERM 49

equipotentiality

DEFINITION 49

same beginnings but different endings (kids born in same

hospital but take different life paths)

TERM 50

first order change

DEFINITION 50

changes in family system but same family structure (new

habits adopted into family life, but same members)

second order change

changes in family structure and new rules to help family,

empathy to other family members, mostly positive but can

be negative (new baby in family so everyone contributes to

infant care)

TERM 52

creator of family systems theory

DEFINITION 52

Murray Bowen, worked with schizophrenics

TERM 53

family of legacy

DEFINITION 53

experiences that influence you and further generations,

effective and ineffective strategies passed down

TERM 54

patterns in

families

DEFINITION 54

generated by past and present experiences

TERM 55

most important unfinished business in

everyone's life

DEFINITION 55

unresolved family conflict

low differentiation

unresolved attachment to family, low individuality

TERM 62

high differentiation

DEFINITION 62

can be individual without living vicariously or solely

dependent on family

TERM 63

interpersonal/interpsychic differentiation

DEFINITION 63

separate feelings from logic

TERM 64

intra-familial differentiation

DEFINITION 64

degree of tolerance for individuality anddifferencesin family

TERM 65

balance of differentiation

DEFINITION 65

separate emotions from logic,balance between closeness to

family and maintaining individuality

tolerance

regulation of boundaries,managing emotional

climate,execution of identity tasks (fused or cut-off)

TERM 67

triangle

DEFINITION 67

unresolved conflict between two people draws in another

person

TERM 68

third person in triangle

DEFINITION 68

freezes but doesn't resolve conflict,family peace is

impossible

TERM 69

common couple triangles

DEFINITION 69

affair, in-lawssubstance abuse, gambling, work, hobbies,

pets

TERM 70

parent-child triangles

DEFINITION 70

child scapegoat,child mediator,perverse (alliance with one

parent, hostile to other parent)

normal family development

families are on continuum,well-differentiated,no

triangles,little anxiety,resolves conflict with family of origin

TERM 77

genograms

DEFINITION 77

like a family tree but really a tree of your relationships with

your family members, with at least three generations to

notice patterns

TERM 78

who uses genograms?

DEFINITION 78

clinicians,geneticists

TERM 79

three primary assumptions

DEFINITION 79

families are systems,personal characteristics,patterns repeat

TERM 80

horizontal transmission

DEFINITION 80

current stresses passed on to other family members

vertical transmission

patterns passed down the generations