Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is genealogy?
What is the definition of family?
What is a personal family?
What is a legal family?
What is an institutional arena?
What is the family arena?
What is a census?
What is the state?
What is the market?
What’s the consensus perspective?
What is the conflict perspective?
What is the breadwinner homemaker family?
What is feminist theory?
What is socialization?
What is exchange theory?
What is symbolic interactionism?
What is modernity theory?
What is the demographic perspective?
What is life course perspective?
What is a cohort?
What is a bias?
What’s an example of a sample survey?
What’s an example of a longitudinal survey?
What are time use studies?
What are social genomics?
What are examples of personal and legal families and the family as an institution? How are they different from another?
How has the US Census’s definition of a family changed over time?
How are structural functionalist and conflict theoretical perspectives different when it comes to understanding families? How do they explain the breadwinner homemaker family?
What are three significant contributions of feminist theory to sociologists understanding of contemporary families?
Why is exchange theory part of the consensus tradition of perspectives? How would an exchange theorist explain housework?
According to modernity theorists what distinguishes first modernity from second modernity? What are the implications for relationships?
What are some of the strategies sociologists use to avoid bias in their research?
What are the advantages of surveys, in-depth interviews, and time use studies? Why would sociologists pick one method over another to study families?
