Soc 101 Test 3

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sex

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biological differences that separate males and females

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sexuality

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sexual preference, desire and sexual identity

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gender

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a social position. social arrangements built around normative sex categories

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gender roles

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behavioral norms assumed to accompany ones status as a male or female

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Hegemonic Masculinity

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the condition that men are more dominant and privileged. the dominance is invisible.

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Feminism

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A consciousness-raising movement to get people to understand that gender is an organizing principle of life. The underlying belief is that women and men should be accorded

equal opportunities and respect.

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race

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a group of people who share similar characteristics, not always physical ones, and are said to share a common bloodline

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social construction of race

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a set of stories we tell ourselves to organize reality and make sense of the world, rather than a fixed biological or natural reality.

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genealogy

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the study of ancestry and family history

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Personal Family:

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people whom we feel related

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Legal Family:

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group of individuals related by birth,

marriage, or adoption.

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Testimonios

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use of personal narratives in U.S. based scholarship in areas of critical race theory, chicana and chicano

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Consensus Perspective:

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a reference group but for families

a perspective that projects an image of society at the expression of shared norms.

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Breadwinner-homemaker family:

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An employed father, an

unemployed mother, and their children.

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George Peter Murdock

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four essential functions

stable sex within monogamous relationship

biological reprodcution for future generations

socialization of offspring

securing economic needs for family memebers

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Talcott Parsons

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functional fit theory- as society changes, the family changes to fit expectations

socialize the young

Stabilize the adult personalities in a relationship.

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conflict theory

karl marx

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families acts as a unit of economic consumption.

.The family acts as like a “financial institution” whereas the wealthy pass their wealth to new generations

and those in poverty do the same. Until the cyclical nature is broken.

• Conflict theorists agree that the family produces class inequality.

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symbolic interactionism

george mead

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patterns of interactions that create meaning for the family

roles are guided by symbolic interaction

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nuclear family

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traditional family, married couple with biological children

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cohabitation

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parents that live together but are not married

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blended

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step families

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Endogamy

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marriage to someone within one’s social group.

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Exogamy

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marriage to someone outside one’s social group.

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Monogamy

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the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time.

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Polygamy

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the practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time.

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Polyandry

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the practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously

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Polygyny

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the practice of having multiple wives simultaneously

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extended family

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networks that extend outside of the nuclear family

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Kinship networks

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strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence (that is, marriage).

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Cult of domesticity

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the notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing.

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second shift

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women’s responsibility for housework and child care

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Miscegenation

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the technical term for interracial marriage, literally meaning “a mixing of kinds”; it is politically and historically charged—sociologists generally prefer exogamy or outmarriage.

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Essentialism

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a line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones.

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Biological determinism

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a line of thought that explains social behavior in terms of who you are in the natural world.

male is male no matter what

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Patriarchy

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a nearly universal system involving the subordination of femininity to masculinity

females are inferior to males

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black feminism

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gender intersects with race, class, nationality, religion, and so forth. Black feminists have made the case that early liberal feminism was largely by, about, and for white middle-class women.

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Sex role theory

Talcott Parsons

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theory that men and women perform their sex roles as breadwinners and wives/mothers, respectively, because the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers.

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structural functionalism.

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every society had certain structures (such as the family, the division of labor, or gender) that existed to fulfill some set of necessary functions.

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The Social Construction of Sexuality

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sociologists tend to argue that humans have sexual plumbing and potential but no sexuality until they are located in a social environment. The range of normal and abnormal is itself a construction, a production of society and power