Fsu fad 2230 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Household labor: - Answer-in general, the unpaid work done to maintain family members and/ or a home. Routine Household labor - Answer-nondiscretionary routine tasks that cannot be postponed, such as cooking, washing dishes, or cleaning Occasional labor - Answer-household tasks that are more time-flexible and more discretionary, such as household repairs, yard care, or paying bills. increased, although women still have the majority - Answer-Men's share of domestic work has increased or d...

Power - Answer-The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviors of others or the course of events. What does power affect in relationships? - Answer-Authority Hierarchy Decision making Interdependence Intimacy Coercive Power - Answer-based on the dominant persons' ability and willingness to punish the partner: abuse or withholding Reward Power - Answer-Give gifts, favors, supports, material things, emotional support Expert Power - Answer-based on dominant person's superio...

Commune - Answer-Group of adults and perhaps children who live together, sharing aspects of their lives. Some communes are group marriages, in which members share sex; others are communal families, with several monogamous couples, who share everything except sexual relations and their children Domestic Partnership - Answer-Arrangement in which an unmarried couple registers their partnership with a civil authority and then enjoys some rights, benefits, and entitlements, traditionally reserv...

Functional - Answer-purpose for which a thing exists (what it does) Structural - Answer-a form that a thing takes (what it actually is) Family Functions - Answer--raising children responsibly -providing economic & other practical support -offering emotional security Extended family - Answer-the family structure that involves a whole kinship group in traditional societies Nuclear family - Answer-husband, wife, children Postmodern family - Answer-families today exhibit a multiplicity of fo...