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What two things are consider society's symbolic instutions?
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| Is a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and raising of children. |
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| A social bond based on blood, marriage, or adoption. |
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| as a social group of two or more people related by blood marriage, or adoption who usually live together. |
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| A legal relationship usually involving economic cooperation as well as sexual activity and childbearing , that people expect to last |
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| A family unit that includes parents and children as well as other kin |
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what caused the move from extended to nuclear family?
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| During the industralization period it created social mobility and geographic migration give rise to the nuclear family |
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What is a nuclear family?
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| a family unit composed of one or two parents and their children. or called conjugal=based on marraige |
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| marriage between people of different social categories |
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| marriage between people of different social categories |
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| marraige that unites two partenrs which is most prevalant throughout america and europe |
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| marriage that unites three or more people |
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which means in greek many women which is a form of marriage that unites one man and two or more women.
Islamic men can have 4 wives |
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Greek"many men"
unites one woman with two or more men.
this happen where agriculture is difficult. |
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What was residential patterns like in preindustrial societies and how did they change as did time?
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| In preindustrial newly weds live with one set of parents who offer protection support and assistance. Most likley they live with or near the husband's family |
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| what is the difference between patrilocality and matrilocality when deciding residential patterns? |
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Patrilocality place of the father where the married couple lives with or near the husbands' family. If the society is more in local warfare they tend toward patrilocality.
If it is matrilocality place of the mother societies live near wife's family.
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| What type of residential pattern does industrial societies typically follow? |
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| They favor neolcality new place in which a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents. |
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| system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations. |
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What is the more common of descent?
Is it patrilineal descent which is more in agriculture and agrarian socieiteis which men prodcue the most valued resource or is it
Matrilineal descent only the mother's side as kin and property passes from mothers to daughters is found in horticultural societies where women are the primary food producers. |
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| It is patrilineal descent |
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| What type of patterns of descent do industrial societies follow? |
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| they have great gender equality so they recognize it as bilateral descent that is children recognize people on both the father's side and mothers side of the family as relatives. |
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What is the functions of the family according
to the structural-functional analysis? |
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The family is the backbone of society.
They believe family is the first and most important setting for child rearing meaning socialization.
Regulation of sexual activity- regulates sexual acitivit in the interest of maintaing kinship organization and property rights. example incest taboo
Social placement- families are not needed for people to reproduce but they help maintain social organization.
Material and emotion security- give physical protection, emotional support, and financial assistance. |
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Inequality and the family
what does the social-conflict analysis say about family?
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| The family perpetuates social inequality by handing down wealth from one generation to the next. The family supports patriarchy as well as racial and ethnic inequality. |
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Constructing family life:
What does the Micro-level Analysis say about family??
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they look at how individuals shape and experience family life.
The reality of family life is constructed by members in their interaction. courtship typically bring together people who offer the same level of advantages. |
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What has industralization done to the importance of extended families?
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| It has weakened traditions that have been done in family for generations. Not only that but love is based on romantic love-affection and sexual passion toward another person-as a basis for marriage. |
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Why has romantic love help caused more divorce rates ?
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| because feelings change over time so romantic love is less stable than that of social and economic considerations one reasons that divorce rate is much higher in the U.S. |
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What does homogamy mean and how has our society encouraged it?
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| like marrying like. which means marriage between people with the same social characteristics. |
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| What is infidelity and what has it caused in marriage today? |
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sexual activity outside marraige. 92% of U.S. adults asaid sex outside of marriage is always or almost always wrong.
21% men have been unfaithful
13% women have been unfaithful. |
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Why was a big family in preindustrial age a good thing to have?
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| It was good because kids help with labor once they were able to walk and move. so having 8 children was the ideal amount to have |
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How has industrialization transformed children economically speaking?
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| Instead of kids being an asset they are consider an liability now because it now costs more than $200,000 to raise one child including college tuition. |
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Where is the highest of amount of people that says they have two or more races in their family?
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| in California and a little in arizona |
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what percent of the U.S. has mixed marriages?
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What are 5 major causes of divorce in today age?
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Individualism is on the rise- less concerned about others more about our selves.
Romantic love often fades- relationship can fail as sexual passion in a marriage fades.
Women are less depend on men- they are increasing participation in the labor force
Many of today marriages are stressful- because both parents work outside of home which leaves less time for fmaily matters. which makes raising kids harder.
Divorce is socially acceptable- divorce no longer carries the powerful stigma it did a century ago. family and friends are now less likely to is courage couples
Legally a divorce is easier to get- today all states allow divorce if a couple simply thinks their marriage has failed. |
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How common is remarraige in the U.S. and what is a couple causes of it.?
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4/5 people who divorce remarry, most within five years. Nationwide about half of all marriage are not remarriages for at least one partner.
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Remarriages does not create blended families?
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| False; it does create them. |
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| Emotional physical or sexual abuse of one family member by another. |
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How higher is the case of victims of domestic violence each year and what percent are women that are the victims?
How many women are killed?
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700,000
85,000 is against women
1,247 women |
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What percent of kids are abused?
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| 3 million and 1400 result in death |
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What is cohabitation?
What % of the U.S. does this? |
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Is the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple.
5.5 million couples
over half of people b/w 25-44 have done this at one point in their lives.
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Is singlehood increasing or decreasing as the years go on?
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How has religion been used in the use of family?
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| famjily have long used religious rituals to celebrate birth, recognize adulthood, and mourn the dead. |
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Hows doe s emile durkheim says religion is involved in our everyday lives?
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| We as human beings we define most objects, event and experiences as profane (outside the temple) an ordinarily element of everyday life. but we also consider some things sacred-set apart as extraordinary, inspiring awe and reverence. |
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setting the sacred apart from the profane is the essence of all religious belief. |
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| iS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION INVOLVING beliefs and practices based on a conception of the sacred. |
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What are the elements in something being sacred described by emile durkheim?
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sacred is embodied in rituals or formal cermonial behavoir.
Example: comunion in Christian faith wafer and juice are used in a sacred way not the sense of just eating food.
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What is faith? How is it seen to christians?
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Belief based on convictions rather than scientific evidence.
To walk by faith not y sights. |
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Function of Religion: Structural functional analysis approach?
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three functions of religion that contribut to the operation of society are
1. social cohesion- religion unites people through shared symbolism, values, and norms, religious thought and ritual establish morality and rules of fair play.
2. Social Control- Society uses religious ideas to promote conformity. Like leaders ask publicliy ask God's blessing
Provide meaning and purpose- religious belief offers the comforting sense that our brief lives serve some greater purpose. |
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Constructing the Sacred:
Symbolic-interaction analysis |
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| Seen as that religion is socially constructed by performing various rituals from daily prayer to easter and passover. making distinction between Sacred and profane. Marriage |
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Inequality and Religion
Social-conflict Analysis.
What does it say?
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Religion supports social inequlaity by claiming that the social order is just.
Religion turns attention from problems i tis world to a better world to come. |
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| type of religious organization that is well integrated into the larger society. |
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Why did early hunters and gatherers embrace animism?
What did horticulture bring?
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the belief that elements of the natural world are conscious life forms that affect humanity think ocean forest are spritual forces
Horticulture- brought beleif in a signle divine power. |
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What % of the U.S. consider themselves Protestant, catholic and jews?
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What part of the U.S. is mostly Catholic
Baptist, and then lutheran |
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New England and the Southwest
South
IN the northern plains |
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How is religion connected with Ethincity?
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It is because one religion often predominates in a single nation or geographic region.
Example: islam- Arab and middle east
Hindu-India |
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As family life has changed over time in the U.S. how has the thought of religion changed over time?
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| It has changed with the process of secularization- which is the historical decline in the imporatance of the sumpernatural and the sacred. Because science is becoming the dominant mode of understanding |
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a quasi-religious loyalty binding individuals in a basically secular society. saying that even in secular society, citizenship has religious qualities
example standing to sing national athmen |
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What is fundamentalism and what are its beliefs?
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A conservative religious doctrine that opposes intellectualism and wordly accommodation in favor of restoring traditional otherworldly religion.
Take sacred word literally, reject pluralism only their faith is true, want personal experience of God's Presence want born again spirit.
Reject science as an answer
In politics to bring evil out of world-gay lesbians, prayer back in school |
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