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The functionalism theory of the family
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The family fills particular societal needs, including socializing the young, regulating sexual activity and procreation, providing physical care for family memebers...
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The symbolic interactionist theory of the family
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Emphasized that the meanings people give to their behavior and the behavior of others is the basis of social interaction.
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The conflict theory of family
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Interprets the family as a system of power relations that reinforces and reflects the inequalities in society
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Feminist view of the family
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The family is a gendered institution
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Causes for the growing # of women households and the problem they face
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high rate of pregnancy among unmarried teens
high divorice rate |
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Greatest change among married couples
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The participation of women in the paid labor force
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Reasons that couples are waiting longer to marry
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Longer life expectancy
Higher educational attainment rates Cohabitation |
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Define the boomerang generation
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single people who remain in their parents' home for longer periods.
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Studies of the amount of work women do
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women do more and this causes stress and resentment about how little their mate helps around the house and the lack of free time they have.
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Country with the most marriages and divorces
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The United States
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Define schooling
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More formal, institutionalized aspects of education
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The 3 "R's"
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Reading, writing and arithmetic
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The functionalist perspective on education
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Education brings about socialization, occupational training and social control
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Latent and manifest functions of education
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Latent - Social control. Kept children off the streets committing crimes
Manifest - Job training |
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The functionalist theory of educations
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Education accomplishes certain consequences, or functions, for a society
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The conflict theory of education
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Focuses on the competition between groups for power, income and social status
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The symbolic interactionist theory of education
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Focuses on what arises from the operation of the interaction process during the schooling experience
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Relationship between gender, income and education
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The connection between income and education is not independent of gender. Gender heavily influences the relationship between income and education.
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Define educational deflation
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The relative economic advantage of completing college, measured in dollars, has declined.
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SAT scores of men vs. women
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Women score lower on math than men
Comparable on verbal |
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Define cognitive ability
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The capacity for abstract thinking
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3 major criticisms of standardized tests
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Only measures limited ranges of abilities
Tend to have cultural bias and gender bias Predictive validity is not impressive |
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Test results and social class
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Whites score higher
Men score higher and the higher the social class, the higher the test score |
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Define achievement test
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Tests what has already been learned in addition to ability or potential
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Define tracking
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Separating students by some measure of cognititve ablility
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Define the labeling effect
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Labeling a student who is in a particular track. These labels usually stick; whether they are right or not
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How school districts are primarily funded
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Property taxes
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Back to basics movement
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A return to a traditional curriculum delivered with traditional methods
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Define social promotion
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passing students from one grade to the next regardless of their performance or grades
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The main goal of the multicultural movement
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To introduce more courses and educational materials into school curricula on different cultures, subcultures and social groups.
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Origin of the nuclear family in western society
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Industrialization
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Define othermothers
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Women who assist bloodmothers by sharing mothering responsibilities
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Define extended family
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The network of parents, children and other relatives who form a family unit
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Characteristics of an egalitarian
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Men and women share power equally, are equally values by all societal memebers...
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Define polygamy
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More than one spouse at one time
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Define neolocal
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Practice of the new couple establishing their own residence
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Define matrilineal kinship
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A woman lives with her family after marriage but so does her husband; her husband doesn't give up membership of his group
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Define patrilineal kinship
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After marriage the woman lives with the man and his kinship; she gives up her prior kinship membership
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Bilateral kinship
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Discent is traced both through mother and father
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Define mescegenation
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Refers to the mixing of races through marriage
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ymagodne enifeD
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Selecting mates within ones group
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ymagoxe enifeD
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Selecting mates outside ones group
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seiteicos nairarga ni nommoc tsom egairram fo mroF
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polgymy
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ymogonom enifeD
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having one sexually exlusive marriage with one spouse
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yrdnaylop enifeD
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Women having more than one husband
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