Family - Unit 1

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developing an understanding and awareness that all social relationships are based on inequality and that each of us comes from a position within a social structure that colors our view of the world

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critical consciousness

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belief that all people have equal opportunity; unaware of a social stratification system and where each of us fall in that system

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false consciousness

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argues that experiential reality is structured, shaped, limited, and organized by the social location in which one exists

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standpoint theory

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transformation of a society, both planned and unplanned, evolutionary or revolutionary, that alters the patterns of people’s interaction; occurs at three levels:

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social change

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What three levels does social change occur at?

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1. norms and values
2. laws and institutions
3. popular culture

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language, beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that a people share

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culture

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human universal through which people teach their culture

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language

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interpretations of the world are determined by language; if language determines thought, then speakers of different languages will have different life experiences

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Theory of linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity (Sapir and Whorf)

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group of people organized within a specific territory to carry out the basic functions of daily life

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society

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divides world into core states, semiperipheral areas, and peripheral areas

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World Systems Theory (Wallerstein)

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says inequities are getting worse and poverty is growing

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Dependency Theory

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racial groupings that create the same inequity within a country that is seen in developing parts of the world

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internal colonies

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technological changes, a move away from subsistence agriculture toward specialization of crops, a growth of urban centers and the development of factories, and a market-based economy

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modernization

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seeks to understand the process of colonization and views colonization as an unending process

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Post-colonial theory

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二枚

ni-mai

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Two (Plates, flat objects)

Hint 15

にまい

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seeing the world from the perspective that everything is in relation to ourselves

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eurocentrism

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those like economics and politics, which are concerned with the large-scale patterns that describe society as a whole

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macrosocietal forces

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small-scale patterns of social interactions, such as relationships, intergroup interactions, and family dynamics

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microsocietal forces

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practice of evaluating any culture by its own standards

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cultural relativity

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chauvinistic patriotism that is somewhat bellicose in nature; extreme form of ethnocentrism

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jingoism

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nations that were the first to industrialize and modernize and have since become technological and economic world leaders

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First World

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not central to the world economy but have industrialized and done well for themselves economically

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Second World

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countries that were not aligned with any other country and whose resources and labor were expendable and not completely necessary to those in the First World

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Third World

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group of people who have intimate social relationships and have a history together

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family

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adult or 2 adults living in an intimate relationship with their own or adopted children

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nuclear family

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relationship between adult persons who are living together intimately is primary; emphasis is on the “marital bond” or intimacy between mates

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conjugal families

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persons of common lineage with combined nuclear families and the primary connection coming through the parent-child relationship

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extended family

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group of people who are responsible for their basic and continuing reproduction needs; places where people live together and share assets; common residence, economic cooperation, and socialization of children

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household

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role relationships used by people who consider themselves related; father, mother, brother sister, daughter, son, etc.

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kinship

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those who call themselves family but are not blood related

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fictive kin

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the authority, the ability to make someone in the family do something they would not ordinarily do, and often the ability to control resources

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power

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relationship in which there are formal ceremonies and established norms about mating

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marriage

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most widely practiced form of marriage in which there is one sexual partner

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monogamy

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having one partner at a time

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serial monogamy

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having a plurality of partners

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polygamy

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man has more than one wife

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polygyny

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woman has more than one husband

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polyandry

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we trace our parentage through both mother’s and father’s sides

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bilineal/bilateral

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tracing parentage through the father; most common form in Western societies

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patrilineal

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occurs when lineage and inheritance comes through the mother’s line

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matrilineal

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a couple resides with the male’s side of the family after marriage

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patrilocal

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a couple resides with the woman’s side of the family after marriage

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matrilocal

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“new place”; couple form their own independent household

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neolocal

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form of payment (money or goods) at the time of marriage, given from one family to the other

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bride price/dowry

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groups of people who interact while carrying out necessary social functions; close in proximity to one another and provide economic, social, or spiritual support

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communities