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family
(defined by U.S. census) |
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-blood related/marriage/adoption
-live with them for more than 1/2 the year
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family
(as defined by many sociologists) |
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-ancestry/marriage/adoption/cohabitation
-work together economically
-care for children |
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| society centered around nuclear family |
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-marriage & parenthood are central
ex. U.S. |
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| society centered around extended family |
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-ancestral relationships are more central than marriage
-aunt, uncles, grandparents, etc.
ex. Nayara caste of India |
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| family one is born/adopted into |
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| family you make for yourself later in life |
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-traced through father
-women can't inherit |
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-traced through mother
-male can't inherit |
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both sides of family equally important
Americans tend to be like this |
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| bride/groom live with husband's fam |
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| bride/groom live with wife's fam |
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bride/groom set up new place to live
Americans tend to do this |
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Stephanie Coontz
The Way We Never Were |
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-debunks myths behind 1950's family
-gov. heavily supported this kind of fam
-families aren't self-reliant, rely on gov for subsidizing
-teen pregnancy not new thing
-women didn't just start working out of the home |
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functionalist perspective
education |
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-education is a key to socialization
-is culture specific
-provides people with COMMON set of knowledge
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conflict perspective
education |
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-education serves wealthy
-works to keep inequalities |
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symbolic interactionist perspective
education |
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-pay attention to process of education
-what meanings are created in the classroom
-education's self-fulfilling prophecies |
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| educational tracking in U.S. |
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-kids are early-on placed into remedial, average, and gifted categories
-hard to change tracks
-lots of resources given to both ends, but not many to "average" students |
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-most job skills learned on the job
-jobs require less skill than several years ago
-need degrees anyway
degree matters more than actual skills |
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-"social glue"
-provides solidarity
-reduces suicide |
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| -religion was "drug" that diluted revolutionary will of people |
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religion
(as defined by Durkheim) |
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way of structuring behavior around:
"sacred" and "profane" |
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| what sociology studies about religion |
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-how it affects a society
-use cultural relativism |
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the more complex society gets, the less important religion will become
religion used to explain things, etc. and now we have science |
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believe in life-force that exists, can be manipulated, etc.
ex. bring rain, good luck, etc. |
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objects inhabit things in nature
ex. water spirit, wolf spirit
ex. native american religious traditions |
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| belief in gods that merit worship, resemble humans |
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idealized state of excellence (individual or world)
focused more on practice
ex. buddhism, taoism, zen
humanism
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