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Define Nuclear Family

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nucleus or core upon which larger family groups are built

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Define Extended Family

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Family in relatives such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles that live in the same house as parents and their children

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Define Monogamy

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one spouse

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Define Polygamy

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multiple spouses

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Who are kinship?

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people to whom we are related

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Define Bilateral Descent

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both sides of a person’s family are regarded as equally important

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Define Patrilineal Descent

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only father’s relatives are important

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Define Matrilineal Descent

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only mother’s relatives are important

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The family serves six functions for society

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Functionalist Perspective

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what are the six functions that Functionalists believe in?

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  1. Reproduction
  2. Protection
  3. Socialization
  4. Regulation of sexual behavior
  5. Affection
  6. providing of social status
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Family reflects inequality in wealth and power found within society

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Conflict Perspective

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Throughout human history, husbands have exercises power and authority within the family

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Conflict Perspective

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Views the family as an economic unit contributing to social injustice

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Conflict view

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14
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Focus on inequality and patriarchal nature of families

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Feminist view

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Focuses on micro level of family and other intimate relationships

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Interactionist views

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Define Incest taboo

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Social norm to commonly to virtually all societies, prohibits relationships between certain relatives

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Define exogamy

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requires mate selection outside certain groups, usually ones’s own family or certain kinfolk

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Define endogamy

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specifies the groups within which a spuse must be found and prohibits marriage with members of other groups

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T/F: Love and marriage is a cultural universal?

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False

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T/F: Many of world’s culture gives priority in mate selection to other factors, such as in an arranged marriage

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True

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Statistically, when are women getting married in relation to men.

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Statistically, younger than men.

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What percent of people marry at some point in their lives?

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90%

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T/F: more couples are rushing entry into first marriage

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False; they are postponing marriage

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What percent of couples will cohabitate?

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50%

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Define cohabitation
Male-Female couples who decide to live together without getting married
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What is Demography?
scientific study of the population
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What kind of social factors do sociologists focus on?
Factors that influence population rates and trends
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Define Life Expectancy
median number of years a person can be expected to live to under current mortality conditions
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Define Growth Rate
Difference between birth and death rates, plus the difference between immigration and emigration
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What is a fertility rate?
the number of kids that a woman has
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What is the US's fertility rate?
2
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What is a large demographic transition that happens across the world?
Transition from high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates.
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Why is there a transition from high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates
The industrialization of a society makes people have less children because less children is needed and makes old people live longer due to better medicine
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What is the three stage process
The process of a society to demographically transition from not-industrialized to industrialized
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What are the three stages of transition
pre-transition, transition, post-transition
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What is the world population total?
7.3 billion
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What is the population of China?
1.404 billion
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What is the population of India
1.286 billion
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What is the population of US
325 million
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What are the largest populations in order? (10)
1. China 2. India 3. US 4. Indonesia 5. Brazil 6. Pakistan 7. Nigeria 8. Bangladesh 9. Russia 10. Japan
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What area has over half the world's population?
Southeast Asia
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How did Durkheim define religion?
a unified system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things.
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Define sacred
things that inspire awe, respect and fear/things that are unique or important. Usually totems
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Define Profane
the ordinary and commonplace
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Define totems
Symbols attached to sacred things
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Example of totems
Star of David, Cross, Flag
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How did Marx view religion?
Religion impeded social change by encouraging people to focus on other worldly society concerns rather than their poverty
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Who coined the term 'opiate of the masses'
Marx
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How did Weber view religion?
Religious values affect economic structure
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who said "the protestant ethic and spiritual of capitalism"
Weber
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How does religion effect the economic structure?
Calvinists emphasize modesty with work, so they spend less money. The banks can then loan out their money to people and gave rise to capitalism
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What is the integrative function of religions?
Religion offers people means and purpose, certain ultimate values and ends to hold in common, leading to fellow like minded people integrated into a society
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What is the Liberation Theology?
use of church in political effort to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice evident in a secular way
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Define Ecclesia
Religious organizations claiming to include most or all members of society and is recognized as national or official religions.
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Define Denomination
Large, organized religion, not officially linked with the state or government
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Define Sects
Relatively small religious groups that have broken away from some other religious organization to renew what they consider the original vision of the faith
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Define New Religious Movements
small secretive religious groups that represent either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith
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New Religious Movements... aka...
Cults
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T/F: Ecclesia in general tend to challenge the government
False; they are conservative and don't challenge secular government
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Order of religious organizations by size (large to small)
Ecclesia-Denomination-Sect-Cult
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Advances in what has lead to what kind of church?
Electronic communication to become an electronic church
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Denominations tend to have explicit _______.
set of beliefs, defined system of authority, and are generally respected in society
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What group is fundamentally at odds with society and does not seek to become established national religions?
Sects
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What group tends to be small and less respected than all the others?
Cults
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Define Belief
statements to which members to a particular religion adhere
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Define Ritual
practices required or expected of members of a faith
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Define Religious Experiences
feeling or perception of being in direct contact with ultimate reality or of being overcome with religious emotions

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