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49 Cards in this Set
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Public Family
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One adult, or two adults who are related by marriage, partnership, or shared parenthood who is/are taking care of dependents and the dependents themselves.
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Private Family
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two or more individuals who maintain an intimate relationship that they expect will last
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Public Goods
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workers (pay taxes that benefit others) education (train others to eventually benefit)
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Private Goods
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a good where consumption by one person results in the good not being available for consumption by others - shared income-
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Free Rider
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the tendency for people to obtain public goods by letting others do the work of producing them - collecting social security with no children-
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Exchange Theory
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views people as rational beings who decide whether to exchange goods or services by considering the benefits they will receive -breadwinner-homemaker family-
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Feminist Theory
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theory that focuses on the domination of women by men, believes gender differences are socially constructed
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Symbolic Interaction Theory
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theory that focuses on people's interpretations of symbolic behavior
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Functionalist Theory
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theory that attempts to determine the functions of the main ways in which society is organized, everyone has a function based on innate talents
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Conflict Theory
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thoery that focuses on inequality, power, and social change
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American Families pre-1776
Structure: Roles: Kinship structure: General Diff btw Native American and European American: |
structure: nuclear family
roles: everyone working that could (farms) kinship: survival, protection, early form of govt general diff: married out of lineages to form alliances, kids had more freedom, harder punishment |
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American Families 1776-1900 (Industrial Rev)
Changes (marriage, gender roles, roles of children, structure of family): |
marriage: migration to city, focus on love
gender roles: men went to cities childrens roles: labor laws family structure: men were gone often until families moved to cities |
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Families 1900-present
Changes(marriage, family) why did these changes happen? |
family and marriage changes: flappers, women voting, womens rights, more private families
why: prohibition, stock markets, depression |
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Post WW2-present
Changes(women, race): |
women: expected to give up jobs to men, sexual freedom
race: civil rights movement-equal pay, vote, intermarriage |
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Early Adulthood
(what is it, significance, how it has changed life course) |
what it is: entering work force later
significance: later marriage, cohabitation changed life course: pushing back |
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Early Adulthood definition
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period when individuals finish their education, enter labor force, and start family
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Sex
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biological term
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Gender
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Social creation
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Biosocial theory of gender
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based on biological differences- gender identification and behavior
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Socialization theory of gender
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process by which social ways and groups are learned
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Interactionalist
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gender identification and behavior are based on behavior that reinforces gender distinction, everyday behaviors of men and women
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Doing Gender
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the things learned throughout our lives about gender roles and specifics
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Masculinity
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characteristics that society defines as being typical for men
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Capitalism
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economic system which goods and services are privately produced and sold on a market for profit
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Patriarchy
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social order based on the dominations of women by men
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Peer group
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group of people who have roughly the same age and status as one another
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Gestation
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the nine month development of the fetus inside the mothers uterus
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Intersexual
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a person who is born with ambiguous sexual organs
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Two-spirit people
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in native american societies, men or women who dressed like, performed the duties of, and behaved like a member of the opposite sex
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Socialism
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economic system in which the number and types of goods produced, and who they are distributed to are decided by the govt rather than by the actions of a market
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Poverty line
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food cost is 1/3 income
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Social Class
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an ordering of all persons in a society according to their degrees of economic resources, prestige and privilege
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Measure of social class
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education, occupation, life chances
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Life chances
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resources and opportunities that people have to provide themselves with material goods and favorable living conditions
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Women-centered kinship
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a kinship structure of support and caregiving occur among a network of women, most of them relatives, who may live in more than one household
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Kinship purpose
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economic support, emotional support, assistance with children
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Kinship and Obligations
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if i receive then i must give back
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Concerted Cultivation
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setting up activities in childs lives, middle class, set children up for success
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Pattern of natural growth
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not organized activities, free play, working class and poor
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Robert Merton and Exchange Theory-interracial marriage
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different races have different statuses-anyone perceived as a lower rank will marry up
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Transnational families
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families that maintain continual contact between members in the sending and receiving countries
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Recipients
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2/3 children (66%)
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TANF shortcomings
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can't keep up with work, no allowance for extenuated circumstances, have to take jobs
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Sanctions in TANF
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not taking job offer, quitting without cause, sneaking someone into house
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TANF benefits
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job referral, childcare/transportation vouchers, SNAP program
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Are TANF goals realistic
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a parent caring for children- but both working
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TANF stand for
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Temporary assistance to needy families
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Social Capital
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who you know
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Post modern
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no categories doesnt follow definition cause they are useless
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