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| one adult, or two adults who are related by marriage, partnership, or shared parenthood, who is/are taking care of dependents and the dependents themselves |
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| two or more individuals who maintain an intimate relationship that they expect will last indefinitely - or, in the case of a parent and child, until the child reaches adulthood - and who usually live in the same household and pool their incomes and household labor |
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| a sociological theory that views people as rational beings who decided whether or not to exchange goods and services by considering the benefits they will receive, the costs they will incur, and the benefits they would receive if they were to choose an alternative course of action |
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| SYMBOLIC INTERACTION THEORY |
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| a sociologocial theory that focuses on people's interpretations of symbolic behavior |
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| a sociological theory that focuses on the domination of women to men |
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| a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection. |
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| a systematic, organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in reaching a problem |
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(field research)
a study in which the researcher spends time directly observing each participant |
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| a study in which individuals from a geographic area are selected, usually at random, and asked a fixed set of questions |
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| a segregated Mexican-American neighborhood in a U.S. city |
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| An alleged (though controversial) change in family life, said to have accompanied the demographic, industrial, and capitalist revolutions which occurred in eighteenth-century England, and since experienced widely in other modernized and modernizing countries. |
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| a kinship group comprising the conjugal family plus any other relatives present in the household, such as a grandparent or uncle |
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| the study of changes in individuals lives over time, and how those changes are related to historical events |
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| links the nuclear family of one married child with his or her natal family |
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| a kinship group in which descent is through the mothers line |
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| a kinship group in which descent is through the father's line |
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| a system in which descent is reckoned through both the mother's and father's lines |
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| FAMILIAL MODE OF PRODUCTION |
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| A means of production in which the family produces nearly all its own food, makes most of its own clothes, and with the help of others, builds its own dwelling |
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| act passed by the U.S. congress which ended restrictions that blocked most Asian immigration and substituted an annual quota |
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| period between mid-teens and about age 30 when individuals finish their education, enter the labor force, and begin their own families |
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| the theory that gender identification and behavior are based in part on people's innate biological differences |
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| the social and cultural characteristics that distinguish women and men in a society |
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| the biological characteristics that distinguish men and women |
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| INTERACTIONALIST APPROACH |
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| the theory that gender identification and behavior are based on the day-to-day behavior that reinforces gender distinctions |
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| the set of personal characteristics that society defines as being typical of men |
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| a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line. |
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| the theory that gender identifiaction and behavior are based on children's learning that they will be rewarded for the set of behaviors considered appropriate to their sex but not for those appropriate to the other sex |
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| families whose connections to the economy is so tenuous that they cannot realiable provide for a decent life |
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| families that have amassed wealth and privilege and that often have substantial prestige as well |
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| families whose connection to the economy provides them with a secure, comfortable income and allows them to live well about a substantial level |
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| families whose income can reliably provide only for the minimum needs of what other people see as a decent life |
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| the tendency of people to marry others similar to themselves |
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| a group of people who share a common style of life and often identify with each other |
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| the state of being extremely poor |
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| the resources that a person can acces through his or her relationships with other people |
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| a person living in the United States who comes from or is decended from people who came form an Asian country |
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(black women's experience)
the extent to which black women's lives are affected by overlapping systems of class, racial and gender-based disadvantage |
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| a person living in the United States who traces his or her ancestry to Latin America |
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| a large, dense, single-ethnic-group, almost self-sufficient community |
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| a family structure in which the mother temporarily leaves the work force to look after her young children |
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| A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage. Couples cohabit, rather than marry, for a variety of reasons. They may want to test their compatibility before they commit to a legal union. |
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| company, friendship or the state of being with someone in a friendly way. When you get married because you enjoy having a friend and having someone there to keep you company and be with someone, this is an example of a time when you marry for companionship. |
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a publicly visible process with rules and restrictions through which young men and women find a partner to marry
supervised mostly by parents |
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| a marriage in which the emphasis is self-development, flexible roles, and open communication |
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| a marriage in which the emphasis is on male authority, duty, and conformity to social norms |
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| an analogy to the labor market in which single individuals (or their parents) serach for others who will marry them (or their children) |
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| a model of the marriage market in which women specialize in housework and child care and men specialize in paid work outside the home |
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| (compasionate marriage - a marriage in which the emphasis is on affection, friendship, and sexual gratification) |
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| sexual activity by a married person with someone other than his or her spouse |
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| a relationship in which two people define themselves as a couple but do not live together |
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| experience sexual feelings, intense longing for the partner, and euphoric feelings of fulfillment and ecstasy, and want to be close to and have contact with the person for whom they feel passionate love. |
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| the principle that whenever individuals sort, or 'select', themselves into groups nonrandomly, some of the differences among the gorups reflect preexisting differences among the individuals |
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a set of sexual practices and attitudes that lead to the formatin in a peron's mind of an identity as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual
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| the state of having just one sex partner |
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