Families In Canada Unit 2

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Youth

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the time of life when one is young, but is the time between childhood and adulthood

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Credentialism

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the trend in Canada for education to be valued as qualifications for jobs rather than for the knowledge and skills it provides

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Education Inflation

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youth today require more education to qualify for some jobs now than was required of the same jobs in the past

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Mentor

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-people several years older than another -person who assisted them in their transition into a career path

-helps by teaching them to understand people, values, and behaviour in their new environment, and taught them to acquire knowledge and skills they needed

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Rites of Passage

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societal rituals that distinguish the recognizable stages of life

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What is the difference between a rite of passage and a normative event?

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a normative event requires developmental change

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Give some examples of rites of passages

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marriage, first relationship, getting license

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Ego

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the undertsadnig of self

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Autonomous Self

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-full ego development

-having a complex concept that includes being a self-reliant person who accepts oneself and others as multi-faceted and unique

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Cohort Affect

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changes in behaviour result from socialized responses to a common social clock rather than from age-linked inner changes

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Pay Equity

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equal pay for work of equal value

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Resocialization

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enables the person to discard old behaviour and to change his or her behaviour

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Dual-Based Moral Code

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a cultural value system that places a greater priority on family obligations than on personal considerations when making important decisions

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Discrimination

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a difference in treatment based on classification of individuals (often in reference to gender or race)

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Homeostasis

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a state of equilibrium

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Anticipatory Socialization

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allows people to learn and practise role behaviour before actually taking on a new role

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Adult Life Structure

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the pattern or design of an adult's individual life

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Social Historians

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tend to examine the observations of other societies to look for examples that are representative

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Individuation

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in the family life-cycle theory, the process of young adults forming an identity separate from that of the family of origin

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Statistics Canada

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the Canadian federal government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture

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Reginald Bibby

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a Canadian sociologist who studied religious trends

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Emile Durkheim

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studied how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity

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Jane Loevinger

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was a developmental psychologist who developed a theory of personality which emphasized the gradual internalization of social rules and the maturing conscience for the origin of personal decisions

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Carter and McGoldrick

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created the family life cycle

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Daniel Levinson

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was a psychologist who is well-known for his theory of stage-crisis view

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Leonard Pearlin

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created the theory of psychological distress which states that people continuously change due to situations and the stresses that come along with them to help them evolve

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What is the difference between stereotyping and discrimination?

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discrimination is acting on not involving certain people whereas stereotyping is just having the thoughts

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Gail Sheehy

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is a journalist that talks about psychology

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Types of Families over Time

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Hunter gatherers, agricultural, pre-industrial, urban industrial, contemporary

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What are the stages of the family life cycle?

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Begin (people meeting/falling in love), Expanding (giving birth, adopting), Developing (developing them to be individuals), Launch (Send out your children into the world), Middle Age (parents focus more on eachother/create their own individuation), Retirement (stop working)

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At what stage do people mature?

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depends

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What are 6 things Stats Canada would collect?

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income, marital status, religion, employment, education, age

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Name all the theories

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systems theory, feminist theory, social exchange theory, functionalism theory, symbolic theory, conflict theory, development theory

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Name the Vanier Institutes of the Family

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affective nurturance, addition of members, social control of members, socialization of children, production consumption and distribution of goods, physical maintenance