Final Flashcards
Girls receive ___ teacher attention and useful feedback than boys
Less
Girls talk significantly ___ in class than boys and when they do speak up, they are ___ likely than boys to be reminded to raise their hands
less, more
Girls are ___ likely than boys to be the focus of unwanted sexual attention in school.
more
Women earn ___% of all bachelor’s degrees, ___% of all master’s degrees, and ___% of all doctorates
57.3
60
51
College women study ___ and have ___ grade point averages than man
more, higher
Women are ___ likely to complete their bachelor’s degrees in 4 or 5 years
more
Female test scores on math are ___ than those of men
less
Women are 2 - 3 time ___ likely to live in poverty than men
more
___ numbers of women work in ___-paying jobs
higher, lower
an unofficial acknowledge barrier to advancement in a position (particularly as pertains to women)
glass ceiling
The ritual of Indian women committing suicide when the husband dies is
Sati
FGM
Female Genital Mutilation
AKA the Declaration of Rights
Declaration of Sentiments
When was the declaration of rights signed?
1948
___ men and ___ women signed the declaration of rights
32, 68
The family into which an individual is born.
Family of orientation
The family that a person forms at his or her marriage.
Family of procreation
The marriage of one woman and one man
Monogamy
The marriage pattern in which a person has several spouses over a lifetime, but only one at a time.
Monogamy
A form of marriage in which a person has multiple spouses
Polygamy
A norm that requires people to find marriage partners outside their own group or social category
Exogamy
South Koreans are discouraged from forming relationships between people of the same ___
surname
In ___, two people from the same village are expected to refrain from romantic involvement
India
Marriage with more than one wife
Polygyny
Marriage with more than one husband
Polyandry
The practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships where individuals may have more than one partner, with the knowledge and consent of all partners
Polyamory
POSSLQs
Person of opposite sex sharing living quarters - cohabitation
Cohabitation is up __ times since 1970
10
A family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships.
Blended Family
__% blended families in the US
17
There are approximately ____ same sex families in the US
700,000
Tracing descendants through both father;s ad mother’s families
Bi-lineal Descent
Tracing descendants through male relatives only.
Patrilineal
Tracing descendants through female relatives only.
Matrilineal
Kin related by blood.
Consanguineal
Kin related by marriage
Affinal
Kin related by adoption
Adopted
A term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither consanguineal (blood ties) nor affinal (“by marriage”) ties, in contrast to true kinship ties.
Fictive Kin
1967 landmark decision on interracial marriage
loving vs Virginia
The physical or psychological proximity between people.
propinquity
The selection of a mate with social characteristics different from one’s own.
Heterogamy
The selection of a mate with personal and social characteristics similar to one’s own.
Homogamy
A function of the family is to define and limit who has ___ access to whom
Sexual
A function of the family is ___ new members.
reproducing
A function of the family is to provide ___ and ___ for the young, infirm, and elderly.
care & support
A function of the family is ____ing
social
A function of the family is to provide people with ___ support and a sense of ____, and fulfillment.
emotional, belonging
According to Engles, the family is a source of ___ for men, and ___ for women and children.
privilege, oppression
Divorce rates ____ dramatically during the 1950s, but they ___ again during the 1960s and 1970s, peaking in ___
dropped, increased, 1981
There are approximately ____, 000 in the US
876,000
Average length of a marriage is?
8 years
3 factors that contribute to the higher divorce rate.
1) Change in perception - viewed as an agreement that may be ended at their discretion
2) Divorce has a greater acceptance
3) No fault divorce is a legal option in many states
___ beating occurs in most of the world’s societies.
Wife
Nearly ___% of surveyed women and ___% of men said they’d been raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by a spouse, partner, or date at some point in their lifetimes.
36, 28
More than ___ million cases of domestic violence occur in the US annually
10 (slide may be 18)
Mozambique’s infant mortality rate approaches ___ per ___ live births
- 1000
Mozambique’s life expectancy rate is approximately ___ - ___ years
49-51
By US standards, everyone in Mozambique is ___.
sick
In the US, infant mortality rates are around ___ per 1000
6.1
___, ____ & ___ have lower infant mortality rates than the US
Japan, Norway, and UK
Life expectancy in wealth nations is in the ___ for men, and between ___ & ___ for women
70s
79 -82
Conditions like measles, mumps and whooping cough are prevented by ___ in wealthy nations.
Vaccinations
While __%, of Mozambique’s population suffer from malnutrition, ___ % of Americans are overweight.
30
70
The study of the incidence and distribution of health and disease in society
Epidemiology
The number of deaths in the first year of life for each 1000 live births per year
Infant mortality
___ refers to an incidence of ill health in a population. ___refers to the incidence of death or the number of deaths in a population.
Morbidity
Mortality
Women outlive men by __ - ___ years
7
10
Whites can expect to live ___ years longer than non-whites
5
___ ____ suffer the poorest health in the United States, with Higher rates of infant mortality, influenza, typhoid fever
Native Americans
An attempt to hide a stigmatizing attribute from others
Passing (think HIV/AIDS)
The number of years that a person could live - 120
Life Span
A “real-world” number of years based on statistics
Life Expectancy
World’s Oldest woman
117
World’s oldest man
113
Individual instance of disease
Cases
of people who have a given condition
Prevalence
New cases of disease
incidence
Localized instance of disease
outbreak
When a given disease goes nationwide
Epidemic
When a given disease goes global
Pandemic
Links the biological and the social
Web of Causation
religious leader and healer
Shaman
According to the Ancient Greeks the smooth operation of the body was dependent upon balance - aka ____ theory
Humoral
The four humors are
1) Blood - source of life
2) Choler (Yellow Bile) what digested food
3) Phlegm - lubricant - too much, too heavy
4) Black Bile - melancholy - would darken the blood or stools
The ___ helped to keep medicine alive in the West
Church
The process in which behavior, activities, and problems previously dissociated from health and medicine are now viewed from a medical perspective and seen as within the domain of doctors, hospitals, and other elements of the health-care system
Medicalization of Society
The sick role (3 things)
1) Expected to take advice
2) Expected to get better
3) social faux pa forgiveness
4) not responsible for being sick
A strong economy will ___ birth rates
increase
If educational and career opportunities are available to women, birth rates will typically ____
decrease
Urbanization causes ___ birth rates
lower
