UNIT 1 Flashcards
Monogamy
Having one marital partner
Polygamy
Having multiple marital partners
Types of families
Nuclear Families
Extended Families
Adoptive families
Single-parent families
Childless families
Cottage Industry
Merchants and artisans working from the family home, and the wife and kids help out with the work
Family
Any combination of two or more people who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption/placement and who, together, assume responsibilities for variant combinations of the functions of the family.
Functions of Family
C G L A S S
Care: Physical care of each member of the family.
Goods & Services: working and providing things for the family. family
Love: Providing children with love, allows them for high emotional intelligence, confidence, empathy, compassion, work better in groups, more likely to have kids, more productive in society. Without love cannot form attachments. Family, parents, friends, extended family.
Addition: Having kids, adding to the population growth. Family, parents.
Socialization: Teaching kids how to interact and communicate with others, gives them the skills to go to school, go to work. Involves family, friends.
Social Control: Contributes to socialization, protects the family image. Teaches children to accept social structures. Family, friends.
Evolution
Paradigm
description of the world of human behaviour, and the interactions of human beings within any society. Used to describe things - viewpoint, perspective, guiding principle, belief system.
Ethnocentrism
When someone has the belief that their own cultural group is superior to others an idea of other cultures based on your own without looking into others cultures
Critical Thinking
The ability to logically and reasonably evaluate an argument or a problem and make reliable judgements through objective analysis of facts
Sociology
is the study of institutions and people in groups
Psychology
scientific study of the mind and behavior
Anthropology
study of human societies, cultures and their development
Roles
set of behaviors that an individual is expected to perform
Norms
The rules that govern one’s behavior.