ch. 13 test 3 soc.
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- religion
- a social insititution invovling beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred
- neolocality
- married couple lives far apart from both sets of parents
- sacred
- set apart as extraordinary, inspiring awe and reverence
- shared blood
- the extended family
- patriarchy
- families theto know thier heirs, men must control the sexuality of women. families therefore transform women into the sexual and economic property of men. today, women still bear most of the responisbility for child rearing and housework; MALE BOSS
- neolocality
- pattern of industrial societies
- matrinlineality
- people define only the mother's side as kin and property passes form mothers to daughters
- pg 394
- what is Weber's idea about the relationship between Protestant ethic and the rise of a capitalism in the West?
- matrilocality
- live with or near the wife's family
- bilateral descent
- children recognize people on both the father's side of the family as relatives.
- matriarchy
- ;FEMALE BOSS
- permitted by lower income nations
- polygamy
- nuclear family
- a family composed of one or two parents and their children
- totem
- the flag is a quasi-religious _____ that is not to beused in a profane way (say, as clothing) or allowed to touch the ground
- permited by higher income nations
- monogamy
- polygamy
- marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses
- endogamy
- mariage between people of the same social category
- partilocality
- live with or near the husband's family
- totem
- an object in the natural world collectively defined as sacred
- profane
- occuring as an ordinary element of everyday life
- Peter Berger
- symbolco-interaction approach explains that we socially construct religious beliefs; we are especially likely to seek religious meaning wehn faced with life's uncertainties and disruptions
- religon involves things that surprass the limits of our knowledge; read 391
- French sociologist Emile Durheim's view point about religion
- example totem
- perhaps an animal or an elaborate work of art- becomes the centerpiece of ritual and symblizes the power of collective life over the individual
- polygyny (most common)
- a form of marriage tht unites one man or two or more women
- based on marriage
- the nuclear family
- animism
- the belief that elements of the natural world are conscious life forms that affect humanity
- cult
- a type of religion organization that is largely outside a societ's cultural tradition; are religious organizations based on new and unconventional beliefs and practices
- monogamy
- marriage that unites two partners
- denomination
- is a church, independent of the state, that recognizes religious pluralism
- consanguine family
- another name for extended family
- husband; live longer, are mentally better off, and report being happier thatn single men; pg.384
- according to the social-conflict paradigm, who will benifit more from a marraige the husband or wife? why?
- patrilineality
- most common
- church
- a type of religious organization that is well integrated into the larger society; are religous organizations well intergrated into their society. they fall into two categories: state churches and denomination
- bilateral descent
- property may also pass form parents to both sons and daughters
- Karl Marx
- social-conflict approach claims that religion justifies the status quo. in this way, religon supports inequality and discourages change toward a more just and equal society
- socialization, regulattion of sexul activity,social placement, material and emotional security ; pg.375
- what are the basic points of structural-funtional analysis of the family
- extemely rare and found in tibet
- plyandry
- exogamy
- marriage between people of differenct soical categories
- nuclear family
- most people live in _________
- divorce is socially acceptable; a divorce is easier to get; read pg 384
- what are the factors that presumably facilate high rate of divorce in America?
- conjugal family
- another name for nuclear family
- sect
- a type of religious organization that stands apart from the larger society; are the result of relgious division and are marked by charismatic leadership and memers' suspicion of the larger society
- extended famiy
- a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin
- patrilineality
- traces kinship through males, and property flows from fathers to sons
- polyandry
- unites one woman and two or more men
- matrinlineality
- found in horticultural societies; woman are main food producers
- Emile Durkheim
- the structural= funtional approach suggests taht religion unites people, promotes cohesion, and gives meaning and purpose to life; through religion, we celebrate the power of our society