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Sociology
12th Grade
01/25/2012

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age 30 transition
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Divorces are common during this stage
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4-5 years
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How long do transitional periods normally last?
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6-8 years
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How long does a stable period normally last?
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five to six times
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How many times will a worker change careers?
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25
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In nearly ___% of all working couples, the woman makes more than the man.
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settling down period
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Major task of this stage is "making it."
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entering the adult world
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On one hand, the individual is expected to explore a variety of relationships and economic opportunities. But they are also expected to be a responsible member of society and form a stable life structure.
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1/4 life crisis
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Time when many people in their 20s experience frustration, self-doubt, and identity crisis.
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leaving family, entering adult world or having a family, returning to the labor force
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What are the three phases of female development?
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early, middle, late
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What are the three stages of adulthood?
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emphasis on marriage
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What is one thing that distinguishes female development fro male development?
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become a mentor for someone else
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What is one way to feel better during your midlife transition?
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5%
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What is the acceptable unemployment rate in the U.S.?
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leaving home both physically and psychologically
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What is the most important task of early adulthood?
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early adult, entering the adult world, and the age thirty transition
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What three transitions make up the novice phase?
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Auguste Comte
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Who believed in "social dynamics"?
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Emile Durkheim
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Who believed that society is a set of independent parts?
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Murdock
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Who came up with cultural universals?
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Erving Goffman
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Who came up with dramaturgy?
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Mead
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Who came up with interactionism?
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Charles Horton Cooley
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Who came up with primary and secondary groups?
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Mead
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Who came up with significant and generalized others?
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Mead
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Who came up with the I and the Me?
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Emile Durkheim
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Who developed France's first sociological course?
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Emile Durkheim
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Who focused on observable social phenomena?
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Max Weber
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Who lived by the saying, "Don't judge another until you've walked a mile in his moccasins?"
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John Locke
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Who looked on the individual mind as beginning blank and empty, but gaining ideas through experience?
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Harriet Martineau
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Who published a translation of Comte's Positive Philosophy?
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Sumner
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Who said that anything can be considered appropriate when norms approve of it?
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Whorf
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Who said that linguistics determine perspective?
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Harriet Martineau
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Who spoke out for the rights of slaves, women, etc?
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Jane Addams
Definition
Who visited Toynbee Hall?
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Auguste Comte
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Who was among the first to apply physical science to the study of society?
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Max Weber
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Who was interested in separate groups of society rather than society as a whole?
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Emile Durkheim
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Who was the first Sociologist to study suicide?
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Auguste Comte
Definition
Who was the founder of Sociology?
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Jane Addams
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Who was the only Sociologist to win the Nobel Prize?
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Harriet Martineau
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Who wrote Society in America?
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79%
Definition
___% of new mothers that enter the labor force return to their work before their children turn 1
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age 30 transition
Definition
age 28 - 32
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entering the adult world
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ages 23 to 27
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settling down period
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ages 33 - 39
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the midlife transition
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ages 40 - 44
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27.1
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average age males get married
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25.3
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average age women get married
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midlife transition
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dreams they formed earlier are beyond fulfillment.
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cultural particularism
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emphasizes the importance of studying each culture in itself, without trying to explain and/or understand it in some larger theoretical framework
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midlife transition
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individuals question their life structure
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settling down period
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often separate from their mentors
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master status
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overshadows or dominates all other social positions of the status set in most or all situations
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work
Definition
performing all tasks necessary to produce goods and provide services that meet human needs
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life structure
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the combination of statuses, roles, activities, goals, values, beliefs, and life circumstances that characterize an individual.
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early adult transition
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transition from about age 17 through 22
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