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- The functionalism theory of the family
- The family fills particular societal needs, including socializing the young, regulating sexual activity and procreation, providing physical care for family memebers...
- The symbolic interactionist theory of the family
- Emphasized that the meanings people give to their behavior and the behavior of others is the basis of social interaction.
- The conflict theory of family
- Interprets the family as a system of power relations that reinforces and reflects the inequalities in society
- Feminist view of the family
- The family is a gendered institution
- Causes for the growing # of women households and the problem they face
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high rate of pregnancy among unmarried teens
high divorice rate - Greatest change among married couples
- The participation of women in the paid labor force
- Reasons that couples are waiting longer to marry
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Longer life expectancy
Higher educational attainment rates
Cohabitation - Define the boomerang generation
- single people who remain in their parents' home for longer periods.
- Studies of the amount of work women do
- women do more and this causes stress and resentment about how little their mate helps around the house and the lack of free time they have.
- Country with the most marriages and divorces
- The United States
- Define schooling
- More formal, institutionalized aspects of education
- The 3 "R's"
- Reading, writing and arithmetic
- The functionalist perspective on education
- Education brings about socialization, occupational training and social control
- Latent and manifest functions of education
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Latent - Social control. Kept children off the streets committing crimes
Manifest - Job training - The functionalist theory of educations
- Education accomplishes certain consequences, or functions, for a society
- The conflict theory of education
- Focuses on the competition between groups for power, income and social status
- The symbolic interactionist theory of education
- Focuses on what arises from the operation of the interaction process during the schooling experience
- Relationship between gender, income and education
- The connection between income and education is not independent of gender. Gender heavily influences the relationship between income and education.
- Define educational deflation
- The relative economic advantage of completing college, measured in dollars, has declined.
- SAT scores of men vs. women
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Women score lower on math than men
Comparable on verbal - Define cognitive ability
- The capacity for abstract thinking
- 3 major criticisms of standardized tests
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Only measures limited ranges of abilities
Tend to have cultural bias and gender bias
Predictive validity is not impressive - Test results and social class
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Whites score higher
Men score higher and the higher the social class, the higher the test score - Define achievement test
- Tests what has already been learned in addition to ability or potential
- Define tracking
- Separating students by some measure of cognititve ablility
- Define the labeling effect
- Labeling a student who is in a particular track. These labels usually stick; whether they are right or not
- How school districts are primarily funded
- Property taxes
- Back to basics movement
- A return to a traditional curriculum delivered with traditional methods
- Define social promotion
- passing students from one grade to the next regardless of their performance or grades
- The main goal of the multicultural movement
- To introduce more courses and educational materials into school curricula on different cultures, subcultures and social groups.
- Origin of the nuclear family in western society
- Industrialization
- Define othermothers
- Women who assist bloodmothers by sharing mothering responsibilities
- Define extended family
- The network of parents, children and other relatives who form a family unit
- Characteristics of an egalitarian
- Men and women share power equally, are equally values by all societal memebers...
- Define polygamy
- More than one spouse at one time
- Define neolocal
- Practice of the new couple establishing their own residence
- Define matrilineal kinship
- A woman lives with her family after marriage but so does her husband; her husband doesn't give up membership of his group
- Define patrilineal kinship
- After marriage the woman lives with the man and his kinship; she gives up her prior kinship membership
- Bilateral kinship
- Discent is traced both through mother and father
- Define mescegenation
- Refers to the mixing of races through marriage
- ymagodne enifeD
- Selecting mates within ones group
- ymagoxe enifeD
- Selecting mates outside ones group
- seiteicos nairarga ni nommoc tsom egairram fo mroF
- polgymy
- ymogonom enifeD
- having one sexually exlusive marriage with one spouse
- yrdnaylop enifeD
- Women having more than one husband