Soc Final

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Active life expectancy

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the number of years a person can live without a disability

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older population

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group of people over 65

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gerontologist

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a social/biological scientist who specializes in the study of aging

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medicare

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government program of health insurance for all older people

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medicaid

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government program of health insurance for people with incomes below the poverty line.

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generalized exchange

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provision of assistance to one member of a family with the expectation that someone in the family will reciprocate at a later time

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skipped generation households

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grandparents and grandkids without parents

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ADLs

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(activities of daily living):personal care activities for elderly people

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intergenerational ambivalence

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socially structured contrary emotions in an intergenerational relationship

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collective ambivalence

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mixed feelings across multiple children

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Poly-victimization

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Experiencing multiple types of child maltreatment

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situational couple violence

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violence that arises from a specific situation in which one or both partners act aggressively in anger

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intimate terrorism

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a pattern in which a man seeks to control the behavior of his partner through repeated, serious, violent acts

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social learning perspective

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theory that individuals learn behavior they will later exhibit by observing what others do and seeing the consequences of these actions

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frustration-aggression perspective

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the theory that aggressive behavior occurs when a person is blocked from achieving a goal

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social exchange perspective

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theory that people calculate whether to engage in a particular behavior by considering the rewards and costs of that behavior and the rewards of alternatives

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Crisisperiod

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Period during the first year or two after parents separate when both custodial parent and children experience difficulties dealing with the situation

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cooperative parenting

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divorced parents coordinate their activities in raising children

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parallel parenting

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divorced parents gravitate towards a more detached style, going about their parenting business separately

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crisis period

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during the first year or two after parents separate when both the custodial parent and the children experience difficulties in dealing with the situation

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bilateral kinship

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system in which descent is reckoned through both the mother's and father's lines

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Social security act of 1935

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Federal act that created, among other provisions, Social Security, unemployment compensation, and aid to mothers with dependent children

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family policy

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political beliefs about how the government should assist families in caring for dependants

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welfare state

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a capitalist government that has enacted numerous measures to protect workers and their families from the harshness of the capitalist system.

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family wage system

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a division of labor in which the husband earns enough money to support his family and the wife remains home to do housework and child care

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Blockgrants

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A fixed amount of money the federal government gives each state to spend on a set of programs

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Institutional reflexivity

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process in which group of individuals use knowledge about a social institution to organize and transform it

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EITC

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Earned income tax credit: a refundable tax credit to low income families with children in which at least one parent is employed (intoduced in 1975)

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welfare reform

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enacted in 1996 , important to liberal and conservative views on family policy and entitlement

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president that "ended welfare".. led to :"welfare reform"

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Bill Clinton in 1996

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block grant

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fixed amount of money that the federal government gives each state to spend on a set of programs

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TANF

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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: federal program that gives assistance to low income families that began in 1996

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3 reasons for the reversal of social policy towards poor families

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1. Attitude towards women's roles

2.Characteristics of the recipients

3. concern about "dependency"

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Social reform program popular for both liberals and conservatives

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The Earned income tax credit

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Healthy Marriage Initiative

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passed by Bush in 2006 to promote heterosexual marriage & fatherhood

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brought the medical model of domestic violence to the forefront of public issues with "The Battered Child Syndrome

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Kempe

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intimate partner rape

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sexual assault by a husband accompanied by physical force or threat of physical force

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new extended kin networks

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multitude of ties across households created by remarriage

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Bureau of the Census definition of a family

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two or more people living in the same household and related by blood, marriage or adoption

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social intituiton

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set of roles and rules that defines a social unit of importance to society

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Most government welfare programs are based on a concern for the well being of children and the elderly, thus placing them in the area of the ___________.

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public family

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The Welfare program AFDC was replaced by in 1996.

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TANF