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| Set of people related by blood, marriage or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society. |
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| A Family in which grand-parents, aunts or uncles live in the same home as parents and their children. |
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| What puts a strain on a family? |
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| THe family into which one is born and where childhood socialization occurs. |
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| A family one forms, often with another adult, by adopting or having children. |
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| One husband and one wife at a time. |
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| Several spouses in a lifetime, but only one spouse at a time. |
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| Marriage that unites three or more people. |
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| One man to multiple wives. |
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| When a woman is married to two or more men. |
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| The practice of marriage of marriage within the group or social category. |
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| The practice of marriage outside the group. Most commonly,exogamy directs people to look outside their immediate kinship group. |
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| The practice of marrying those w/ whom one shares similar characteristics and interest with, such as age, education, race or ethnicity, religious and political views and/or social class. |
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| The practice of tracing kinship through men. THis is a characteristic of preindustrial socities and is found in industrial socities as well. Inheritance typical passes from father to son(s) in patrilineal descent. |
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| The practice of tracing kinship and passing along inheritance thrugh women is termed. |
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The tracing of kinship through both women and men-is quite common
Practiced in the USA. |
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| A society expects males to dominate in all family decision making. Frequently in these types of societies, the oldest male holds the greatest power. |
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| Authority resides in the eldset female, usually the mother, who holds power over other family members. |
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| Bother partners share power and authority equally. |
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| Functionalist perspective on the family |
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| View the family as performing several important functions that contribut to the stability of society and to the health of individuals. there are severn key functions that families perform. |
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| Seven key functioons that families perform. |
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Reproduction
Socialization
Sexual regulation
Social Status
Protection
Affection and Companionship
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| The family serves to perpetuate social inequality. Families are seen as the primary source of inequality. The practive of endogamy directs people to marry within their racial or ethnic group as well as their social class, therby contributing to the perpetuation of the class hierachy as well as the racial and ethnic hierachy and divisions within society. |
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| Gay and Lesbian couples living together with children, either from previous marriages or born to one partner, face many of the same problems as heterosexual couples with children. |
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| Cohabitation couples that eventually marry have the highest divorce rate. This may reflect the fact that they have become accustomed to the low-commitment relationships and fins it difficult to adjust to marriage. |
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| Blended families are formed when one or both people in a marriage have been previously married or widowed and have one or more children from the previous marriage. |
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| Arise because of legal obligations of husbands and wives toward their former spouses and children from previous marriages. |
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| Where stepchildren may attempt to break up the new marriage in hopes their biological parents might reunite. |
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| Unclear statuses and roles |
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| The rols of step-parents are often vague and ambiguous there are new power relationships, and new methods of control and discipline. |
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| Family violence is defined as all types of violent crime committed by an offender who is related to the victim and includes spouse abusem parental violence against a child and violence among other family members. |
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| include pysical inury; however, abusive adults can misuse power and trust to harm a childs emotional and psychological health. |
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| Relatively spontaneous and unstructed social behavior of people who are responding to some person or event external to themselves. |
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| Conductive to people responding in a specific way. |
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| Events must occur in just the right ordre to get attention of others. |
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| Mechanisms of social control give away such that established norms are inadequate or ineffective in guiding peoples behavior. |
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| Dispersed collectivities engage in the less structured forms of collective behavior. |
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| Widely circulation stories of disputed truth. They usually focus on people or events that are of great interest to others. |
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| Moralistic stories passed along by people who swear they are true because they happened to someone they know or a friend of a friend. |
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| Collective behavior whereby people respond to a real or imaginedthreat with irrational and often self-destructive behavior. The war of the world's, which many people percieved as a real account of the invasion of earth by martians. |
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| Unusual behavior patterns that spread rapidly among a particularsegment of society and then disappear after a short time. |
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| A type of fad that can have serious consequences for those who engage in it. Crazes include dangerous dietsm tongue piercing and other over-dosing on cold medicines to expierence a "high" |
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| Behaviors that evolve over time and are widely approves but expected to change periodically. As societies become more modern, fashions become more significant and may change more rapidly. |
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| A temporary gathering of a large number of people who share a common interest and who infuence each other. Largest form of collective behavior. |
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| Least organized, least emotional and most temporary. |
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| Has a specific purpose and behaves ccorfind to accepted guidlines for appropriate behavior. |
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| Form to express emotions such as crying, yelling or laughing. |
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| Forms and concentrates intensely on some objective and engages in aggresive behavior to achieve the objective. |
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| Occurs when people react to a real threat in fearful, anxious and often self-damaging ways. |
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| Collectively acting violently as a result of deeply held emotion |
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| A highly emotional crowd whose members engage in or intend to engage in violent behavior directed toward a specific target. Mob behavior often is of shorter duration than riot behavior. |
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| An early explanation of collective behavior. |
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| People move around in an aimless fashion stimulating each other. |
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| Crowd members become more intense, impulsive and unstable. They are highly responsive to suggestions and actions of others. |
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| A rigid, unthinking and non rations transmitting of moods to action against a target or to achieve a goal. |
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| People who wish to act in a certain way come together to form crowds. |
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| Large informal groupings of individuals or organizations focused on specific political or socail issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change. |
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