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| The average number of children that a woman bears in her lifetime |
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| a population in which the percentage that is age 65 and older is increasing compared to other age groups |
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| A social institution that binds people together through blood, marriage,law, and/or social norms |
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| A standard against which real cases can be compared |
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| a critical set of potential social advantages, including the chance to survive the first year of life, to live independently in old age, and everything in between. |
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| Secure Parental Employment |
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| A situation in which at least one parent or guardian is employed full time |
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| Work that involves the production of the means of existence, of food, clothing, and shelter and the tools necessary for that production |
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| Work that involves bearing children, care giving, managing households, and educating children |
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| Norms requiring or encouraging people to choose a partner from the same social category as their own |
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| Low-Technology Tribal Societies |
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| Hunting and Gathering societies with technologies that do not permit the creation of surplus wealth |
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| Pre-industrial arrangements characterized by no police force, militia, national guard, or other peacekeeping organizations. Instead, the household acts acts an armed unit, and the head of the household acts as its military commander |
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| A physical or mental condition that interferes with someone's ability to perform an activity that the average person can perform without technical or human assistance |
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| something society has imposed on those with certain impairments because of how inventions were designed and social activities organized to exclude them and to accommodate others |
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| A point of view that assumes those who are impaired with regard to some activity such as walking, are also impaired in other areas that do not involve walking |
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| Why is it difficult to define family? |
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| An amazing variety of family arrangements exist in the world. |
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| Why is it difficult to define family? |
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| An amazing variety of family arrangements exist in the world. |
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| Family can be defined in terms of the _________ it performs for society |
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| Family can be defined in terms of the _________ it performs for society |
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| How does family perpetuate the system of social inequality? |
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| The family passes on social privilege and social disadvantages to its members, and it goes on and on. |
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| How does family perpetuate the system of social inequality? |
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| The family passes on social privilege and social disadvantages to its members, and it goes on and on. |
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| How do sociologists identify triggers of change? |
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| Through the changes in family structure, which are responses to larger economic, cultural, historical, and social forces. |
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| How do sociologists identify triggers of change? |
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| Through the changes in family structure, which are responses to larger economic, cultural, historical, and social forces. |
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| What has changed the family structure? |
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| Fundamental shifts in the economy, a decline in parental authority, the changing status of children, and dramatic increases in life expectancy. |
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| What has changed the family structure? |
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| Fundamental shifts in the economy, a decline in parental authority, the changing status of children, and dramatic increases in life expectancy. |
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| Because the aging of the population has no historical precedent: |
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| The family must find ways to adapt to this situation and to balance the care-giving needs of the elderly against others who need care. |
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| Because the aging of the population has no historical precedent: |
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| The family must find ways to adapt to this situation and to balance the care-giving needs of the elderly against others who need care. |
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| Definitions of family that emphasize _______ view the family as comprising members who are linked together by blood, marriage, or adoption. |
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| Definitions of family that emphasize _______ view the family as comprising members who are linked together by blood, marriage, or adoption. |
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| Sociologist __________ wrote about an economic arrangement in which the man's economic role was the link between the family and the wider market economy, and the woman's role was confined to running the household. He called that economic arrangement called the ________ |
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| Kingsley Davis, Breadwinner System |
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| Sociologist __________ wrote about an economic arrangement in which the man's economic role was the link between the family and the wider market economy, and the woman's role was confined to running the household. He called that economic arrangement called the ________ |
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| Kingsley Davis, Breadwinner System |
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| How did the Industrial Revolution separate the workplace from the home and alter the division of labor between men and women? |
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| The man became the link between the family and the wider market economy. |
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| How did the Industrial Revolution separate the workplace from the home and alter the division of labor between men and women? |
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| The man became the link between the family and the wider market economy. |
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| In the US, the practice of dividing family members along racial lines began with _________. |
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| In the US, the practice of dividing family members along racial lines began with _________. |
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| __________ is imposed when emphasis is placed on the loss of some mental or physical capacity and no consideration is given to ways of reducing barriers to full participation. |
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| __________ is imposed when emphasis is placed on the loss of some mental or physical capacity and no consideration is given to ways of reducing barriers to full participation. |
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| Under the ie system, a bride was known as ______________________. |
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| the bride of her family, not the bride of her husband |
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| Under the ie system, a bride was known as ______________________. |
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| the bride of her family, not the bride of her husband |
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| People make decisions about which kin they will acknowledge as family and which kin they will "forget". This process is known as _______. |
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| Selective remembering and forgetting. |
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| People make decisions about which kin they will acknowledge as family and which kin they will "forget". This process is known as _______. |
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| Selective remembering and forgetting. |
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| Japan's __________ is a major national concern. |
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| Japan's __________ is a major national concern. |
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| Functionalists maintain that the family performs several social functions for society. Which one of the following is not one of these functions? |
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| Passing on social advantages and disadvantages. |
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| Functionalists maintain that the family performs several social functions for society. Which one of the following is not one of these functions? |
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| Passing on social advantages and disadvantages. |
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| In a/an ______________ women can enter relationships offering income and other personal achievements. |
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| In a/an ______________ women can enter relationships offering income and other personal achievements. |
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| In comparison to the US, Japan has a lower rate of reported ____________. |
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| In comparison to the US, Japan has a lower rate of reported ____________. |
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| At one time(1967), the US had laws prohibiting marriages between people classified as white and black. Those laws enforced |
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| At one time(1967), the US had laws prohibiting marriages between people classified as white and black. Those laws enforced |
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| Caregiving that family members, neighbors, and friends provide in a home setting is _____________. |
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| Caregiving that family members, neighbors, and friends provide in a home setting is _____________. |
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| Endogamy refers to norms requiring or encouraging people to choose partners who __________________________. |
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| Endogamy refers to norms requiring or encouraging people to choose partners who __________________________. |
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| The experiences that train, discipline, and shape the mental and physical potentials of the maturing person |
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| Education that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way |
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| A purposeful, planned effort aimed at imparting specific skills and information |
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| A program of formal, systematic instruction that takes place primarily in classrooms but also includes extracurricular activities and out of classroom assignments |
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| The inability to understand and use a symbol system, whether it is based on sounds, letters, numbers, pictographs, or some other type of symbol |
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| A situation in which employers use educational credentials as screening devices for sorting through a pool of largely anonymous applicants |
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| A concept that begins with a false definition of a situation. Despite its falsity, people assume it to be accurate and behave accordingly. The misguided behavior produces responses that confirm the false definition. |
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| The essential content of the various academic subjects-mathematical formulas, science experiments, key terms, and so on. |
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| Important messages conveyed to students unrelated to subject content |
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| Objective reality internalized. That internalized reality becomes the mental filter through which people understand the social world and their place in it |
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| The perpetuation of unequal relations such that almost everyone, including that disadvantaged, come to view this inequality as normal and legitimate and tend to shrug off or resist calls for change. |
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| A subculture;a small society, one that has most of its important interactions within itself, and maintains only a few threads of connection with the outside adult society. |
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| Any analysis of school systems must focus on the ways the __________________ is structured to create and perpetuate advantage and privilege. |
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| Most, if not all, educational systems sort students into distinct instructional groups according to similarities in ______________. |
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| Past academic performance, performance on standardized tests, or even anticipated performance. |
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| Schools and teachers everywhere and at all levels of education teach two curricula simultaneously: ______________. |
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| A formal one and a hidden one. |
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| When people locate themselves relative to others, they _________________________ and what is________________. |
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| Gain a sense of their place in society, what is objectively possible. |
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| a stage on which critical issues and key concerns are voiced and addressed. |
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| Sociologists seek to understand: |
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| why not all racial and income groups experience educational success or failure at the same rates. |
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| _______ ranks #1 among the top 25 countries sending students to the US. |
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| Sociologist ___________ found that the perceptual schemes people draw upon are shaped in large part by their________. |
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| The most popular destination for US students studying abroad is____________. |
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| ________________________ includes a person's educational credentials, the kinds of knowledge acquired, social skills, and aesthetic tastes. |
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| Which sociologist defined the adolescent society? |
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| According to sociologist_____________, high school dropouts come to know and internalize what is objectively possible for someone with their educational credentials and, as a result, are not likely to expect a high income. What is this internalized reality known as? |
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| Pierre Bourdieu, the habitus |
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| What prepares students for direct entry into a specific occupation? |
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| What are the functions of education? |
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| Transmitting skills, contributing to personal reflection and change, and integrating diverse populations. |
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| Most European vocational school programs are equivalent in rigor to US ____________. |
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| "I'm dropping out of high school because I'm just not a good test taker. Both of my parents dropped out, my family just isn't cut out for school." What does this statement demonstrate? |
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| Coleman believes that what is a major avenue open to adolescents in which they can act as a representative of the school and the community? |
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| A system in which students are assigned to separate instructional groups within a single classroom or different programs, such as college prep verses remedial, is know as _________________. |
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