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128 Cards in this Set
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Front (Term) Family |
Back (Definition) Two or more individuals who live together and have a legally or normatively recognized relationship |
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Family can be based on? |
Marriage birth or adoption |
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What does a family do? |
Reproduction of a community and citizenry Allocation of roles |
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Extended family |
One or more parents, children, other kin, several generations living in the same household |
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Extended family is more common in |
Lower income, immigrant and minority families |
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Nuclear family |
Parents living with biological children apart from other kin |
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Marriage |
Culturally normative relationship usually between two individuals |
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What characterizes marriage |
Economic cooperation, emotional intimacy, sexual relations |
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What legitimizes marriage |
Law, religions, cultural norms |
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Endogenous marriage |
Limited to partners who are members of the same social group |
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Anti-miscegenation laws |
Prohibit interracial sexual relations and marriage |
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Loving v Virginia court caze |
Dealt with interracial marriages |
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Monogamy |
Person has only one spouse at a time |
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Polygamy |
Person may have more than one partner at a time |
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Polygyny |
Man has multiple wives |
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Polyandry |
Woman has multiple husbands |
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Serial monogamy |
Practice of having more than one wife or husband but only having one at a time |
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Family is a "------" |
Factory of personalities |
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Women are socialized into_____roles |
Expressive |
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Men are socialized into_____roles |
Instrumental |
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Sexual division of labor |
dividing production by gender (men produce and women reproduce) |
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The sexual division of labor gives males______. |
Privileged access to money, status, independence and opportunities |
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His marriage |
Defines himself as burdened, constrained, while experiencing authority, independence, and right to sexual and domestic relationship |
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Her marrisge |
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Stress indicators |
Married men and women are high in stress Unmarried men and women are low in stress |
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In the preindustrial/agricultural era, the family |
Were social and economic units Multiple generations, children valued for production, enduring marriages |
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During industrial/urbanization, families___ |
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What percent of families fall under the nuclear family definition |
7 |
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The nuclear family is less common amongst |
Working class families |
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The feminine mystique |
Women's discontent born of exclusion/ marginalization in the workplace, feelings of unfulfilment |
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Who experienced the feminine mystique |
Primarily middle class white women |
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Family households |
Immediate relatives such as husband wife and children |
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Non family households |
Everyone else besides immediate relatives and those living alone Excludes same sex couples |
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Cohabitation |
Partners live as if married but without marriages formal legal framework |
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Marriage and divorce rates are on the increase or decrease |
Decrease |
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How many states permit same sex marriage? |
36 and DC |
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Civil unions |
Legal unions that provide some state level legal rights and benefits |
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Domestic partnerships |
Legal unions that provide a circumscribed spectrum of rights and benefits to same sex couples |
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How many federal and state benefits are there for marriage |
1049 |
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How many state benefits for civil unions? |
300 state benefits and 0 federal benefits |
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What percent of U.S. Residents are U.S. Born? |
13 |
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Transnational |
Living, working, worshipping, politically active in one nation while still maintaining ties to another nation |
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_____________migrants often have higher birth rates than native born us |
First generation |
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concerted cultivation |
middle class, negotiation, discussion, questioning of authority, cultivation of talents through activities. |
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accomplishment of natural growth |
working class; directives, obedience, meet basic needs, unstructured play this cultivates independence, low-skilled jobs, respect for authority and obedience. |
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1965 moynihan report |
dysfunctions of the lower class black family criticized as racist, sexist despite attention to structural factors as well |
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william julius wilson |
argues that structure and culture interact to create normative contexts for behavior |
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edin and kefalas- promises i can keep |
high value family, motherhood is achievable while marriage is not |
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how many people say that their college loans delayed marriage |
14% |
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how many people say that their college loans delayed having children |
20% |
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domestic violence |
physical or sexual abuse committed by one family member against another (adults to children, spousal, sibling, etc) |
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how many women have experienced intimate partner violence? |
1 in 3 |
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how many men have experienced intimate partner violence? |
1 in 4 |
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how many people who are abused will probably become abusers? |
30% |
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what percent of elderly experienced abuse or neglect? |
11% |
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what is the leading cause of homelessness nationally? |
domestic violence, especially for women |
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education |
the transmission of societys norms, values, and knowledge base by means of direct instruction |
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what is the first source of education? |
family and community |
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formal education |
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mass education |
extension of formal schooling to wide segments of the population |
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what were the first educational institutions in the US? |
created by puritans for religious studies |
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public education |
universal education system provided by the government and funded by tax payer revenues rather than student fees |
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credential society |
one in which access to desirable jobs and social status depends on possesion of diploma certifying formal edu |
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functionalism and education (durkheim) |
educational institutions socialize members and promote social mobility |
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manifest function |
intended consequence in education it is the transmission of general knowledge and specific skills |
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latent function |
unintended consequences propogation of societal norms and values, child care, peer socialization, reinforcement of gender norms. |
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critique of durkheim and functionalism |
functions to reproduce inequality and may promote critical approach to dominant areas |
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conflict perspective and education |
reproduces rather than reduces social stratification and ensures that discovery of talent will be limited |
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what stance states that lower income and minority children lack equal access to educational outcomes? |
conflict perspective |
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conflict perspective: hidden curriculum socializes_____________ to accept their position in society |
working class |
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symbolic interactionalism and education |
study found teachers treat students that they believe to be gifted differently |
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self fulfilling prophecy |
students come to see themselves through their teachers eyes and perform better or worse accordingly |
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__________receive higher grades than test scores |
asian american women |
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_______Receive lower grades |
latinos, african american, white men |
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world poverty |
created out of an impoverished language environment |
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what translates into lower literacy? |
less books, less spoken words, lower vocabs |
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functional literacy |
ability to read and write at a level to fulfill everyday practical needs |
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what percentage of people fall below basic literacy? |
14% |
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what percentage of americans fall at basic literacy level? |
29% |
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what percentage of americans fall at proficient literacy levels? |
13% |
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school segregation |
education of racial minorities in schools that are geographically, economically, socially seperated from those attended by whites |
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what was considered a crime for slaves? |
reading and writing |
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_______schools remained segregated after jim crow laws |
northern |
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school busing |
court-ordered program that transports public school students to schools outside their neighborhood |
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white flight to______ |
suburbs |
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what perpetuates inequality in education? |
property taxes |
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US students spend _____ time in the classroom |
less |
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why was summer break created? |
to meet the needs of vacationing elite |
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what are higher levels of education strongly associated with? |
high levels of income and high levels of labor force participation |
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what has the shift to post industrial society meant? |
less unionized, well paid manufacturing jobs and more low paid, low benefit, service sector jobs. |
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what is educational attainment a product of? |
agency and structure |
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unpaid internships |
used to pad resume economically exploitative lower income students lose out |
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how many people will graduate with a bachelors degree in 4 years in texas? |
13% |
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how many students complete college once they have begun? |
46% |
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health |
a persons state of mental, physical, and social well being |
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medicine |
institutionalized system of diagnoses, treatment, prevention of illness |
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preventative medicine |
medicine promoting a healthy lifestyle to prevent poor health |
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morbidity |
rate of illness |
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mortality |
rate of death |
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sick role |
cultural definition of appropriate behavior and response to people labelled as sick |
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parsons and health and medicine |
right to be excused from social responsibilities and "normal" social roles. illness is biologically and socially defined |
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goffman and health and medicine |
everyone expected to perform a certain role when someone is sick. |
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social construction of illness |
illnesses that are culturally defined as legitimate allow the person to more readily take on the sick role |
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health care |
all activities intended to sustain, promote and enhance health |
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what does an adequate health care system do |
includes policies to minimize violence and chance of incidents |
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US is more______than other countries |
violent |
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what is the leading cause of death in US |
gun violence and firearm accidents |
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US children are killed by guns ____more than other developed countries |
11 times |
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homocide |
leading cause of death in african american males |
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rates of homocide_____ in states with high rates of gun ownership |
increase |
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_____% of the victims of domestic violence are women |
85 |
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how many women are killed by intimate partners each day |
3 |
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how many adolescent females reported rape or sexual abuse by a dating partner? |
1/3 |
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lower income people: |
more likely to live in areas with more air position, more exposure to violence, less exposure to safe areas to play, less likely to go to doctor for illness, less access to healthy food |
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white women life expectancy |
81.3 yrs |
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black women life expectancy |
78.2 years |
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white men life expectancy |
76.6 years |
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black men life expectancy |
72.1 years |
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who has the highest infant mortality rates? |
blacks |
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what percent of people in the US are without health care? |
16% |
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medicare |
48 million americans elder insurance program and some younger residents with disabilities |
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medicaid |
1 in 6 ppl in the US lower income children and adults |
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Affordable Care Act |
can stay on parents insurance until 26 yrs old make coverage more accessable and affordable if youre not covered you pay a fine |
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criticisms to the ACA |
gov is overstepping boundaries socialized medicine infrigment on right to choose us spends more per capita on health care than any other country |
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public health |
science and practice of health protection and maintenance at a community level |
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tuskagee syphillis study |
injected syphillus into 400 black men and refused treatment in order to see what would happen |
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pharmaceutical companies use developing countries as___ |
test subjects |
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