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SOCL 2001 Tim SLACK Final Exam Question And Answers 2025
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Family - correct answers ✅A group of individuals related to one another by bloodd ties, marriage, or adoption, who form an economic unit, the adult members of which are often responsible for the upbringing od children. All societies have some form of a family system Kinship - correct answers ✅A relation that links individuals through blood ties, marriage, or adoption Marriage - correct answers ✅A socially and legally approved sexual relationship between two individuals Nuclear family - correct answers ✅A family group consisting of an adult or an adult couple and their dependant children Extended family - correct answers ✅A family group consisting of more than two generations of relatives Family of orientation - correct answers ✅The family into which an individual is born or adopted
Family of procreation - correct answers ✅The family of an individual initiates through marriage or by having children Matrilocal family - correct answers ✅A family system in which the husband is expected to live near the wife's parents Patrilocal family - correct answers ✅A family system in which the wife is expected to live near the husbands parents Monogamy - correct answers ✅A form of marriage in which each married partner is allowed only one spouse at any given time Polygamy - correct answers ✅A form of marriage in which a person may have two or more spouses simultaniously Polygyny - correct answers ✅A form of marriage in which a man may have two or more wives simultaniously
Feminist perspective - correct answers ✅Focus on the domestic devision of labor, unequal power relationships, and caring activities "the problem with no name" - correct answers ✅- Betty Friedan on the isolation and boredom of housewives Domestic devision of labor - correct answers ✅Part of the feminist perspective that puts focus on the devision of labor in a heterosexual household. Studies found women put in more hours of unpaid labor and have less hours of leisure despite still working outside of the home unequal power relationships - correct answers ✅Part of the feminist perspective that puts focus on domestic violence, wife battering, marital rape, incest, and sexual abuse of children caring activities - correct answers ✅Part of the feminist perspective that puts focus on the broad realm that encompasses child care to elder care - which are among some
of the lowest paying jobs - typically held by women of color and immigrants Skip generation households - correct answers ✅Homes that grandparents are taking care of children Coontz on family - correct answers ✅families in the past weren't nearly as sweet and kind as we often picture them. Women were normally banned to the home, men were cheaters, and death rates were much higher. Ststistically, Chilldren by the age of 21 had already seen a parent death William J Goode - important changes characterizing family change - correct answers ✅1. small family groups based on heredity, and other types of kin groups are declining in influence
fertility in lower income women - correct answers ✅lower income women have higher chances of young fertility and infrequent employment why have divorce rates increased so steeply? - correct answers ✅changes in law have made it easier, marriage today no longer has the desire to gain ritches or status, women have become more economically independant - thus - they dont need marriage as much, the stigma od divorce has decreased, and theres an increased value of satisfaction in marriage - people are far less likely to stay in an unhappy marriage then they used to Andrew Cherlin: effects divorce has on children - correct answers ✅almost all children experience intense emotional distress after the divorce, after two years most resume normal developement without serious problems - then - a minority of children experience long-term problems that extend into adulthood
remarriage - correct answers ✅marriage rates are higher amongst previously-divorced people. However, remarriage is higher among men. stepfamily - correct answers ✅A family in which atleast one partner has children from a previous marriage nonmerital childbirth - correct answers ✅Highest among couples in their 20s delaying marriage- most are in cohabitating relationships Black and white unmarried birth differences - correct answers ✅Half of black women experience childbirth outside of any sort of union while only a quarter of hispanics do and only 9% of whites Family violence - correct answers ✅Two broad categories: child and spousal abuse - usually carried out by men
start and end, and that an intamate relationship is possible outside of marriage Literacy - correct answers ✅20% of the population ages fifteen years and older are illiterate in developing countries Three main motivations for home schooling - correct answers ✅concern about the school environment, desire to provide religious or moral instruction, and dissatisfaction with schooling at other schools tracking - correct answers ✅Dividing students into groups according to ability how does tracking effect students - correct answers ✅Tracking helps higher achieving or upper level students and harms lower lever or below average students by re-engrainning enequality in education
hidden curriculum - correct answers ✅traits of behavior or attitudes that are learned at school but not included within the formal curiculum - for example, gender differences minority IQ - correct answers ✅People in minority groups across the globe (african american in US specifically) score 15 points on average lower than the majority groups functional literacy - correct answers ✅Having reading and writing skills that are beyond a basic level and are sufficient to manage one's everyday activities and employment tasks prose literacy - correct answers ✅a person can look at a short piece of text to get a small piece of uncomplicated information. Document literacy - correct answers ✅a person's ability to locate and use information in forms, schedules, charts, graphs, and other informational tables.
alienation - correct answers ✅The sense that our own abilities as human beings are taken over by other entities. The term was originally use by Karl Marx to refer to the projection of human powers onto gods. Subsequently he used the term to refer to the loss of worker's control over the nature and products of their labor sacred - correct answers ✅describing something that inspires awe or reverence among those who believe in a given set of religious ideas profane - correct answers ✅that which belongs to the mundane everyday world religious economy - correct answers ✅a theoreticsl framework within the sociology of religion that argues that religions can be fruitfully understood as organizations in competition with one another for followers
religious nationalism - correct answers ✅the linking od strongly held religious convictions with beliefs about a people's social and political destiny liberation theology - correct answers ✅An activist catholic religious movement that combines catholic beliefs with a passion for social justice for the poor work - correct answers ✅The activity by which people produce from the natural world and so ensure their survival - doesnt have to be paid occupation - correct answers ✅any form of paid employment in which an individual regularly works informal economy - correct answers ✅economic transactions carried on outside the sphere of formal paid employment division of labor - correct answers ✅the specialization of work tasks, by means of which different occupations are combined within a production system. All societies have at least some
Capitalism - correct answers ✅an economic system based on the private ownership of wealth, which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit Types of corporate capitalism - correct answers ✅1. Family capitalism - capitalistic enterprise owned and administered by entreprenurial families
knowledge economy - correct answers ✅A society no longer based primarily on the production of material goods but rather on the production of knowledge. Its emergencehas been linked to the developement of a broad base of consumers who are technologically literate andhave made new advances in computing, technology, entertainment, and telecommunications as part of their lives globalization - correct answers ✅the development of social and economic relationships stretching worldwide. In current times, we are all influenced by organizations and social networks located thousands of miles away social change - correct answers ✅alteration in basic structures of a social group or society. Social change is an ever present phenomenon in social life, but has become especially intense in the modern era. The origins of modern society can be traced to attempts to understand the dramatic changes shattering the traditional world and promoting new forms of social order.
Service society - correct answers ✅A social order distinguished by the growth of serve occupations at the expense of industrial jobs that produce material goods Knowledge society - correct answers ✅another common term for information society - a society based on the production anf consumption of technology based knowledge postindustrial society - correct answers ✅based on the production of information rather than marerial goods. Acoording to postindustrialists, we are currently experiencing a series of social changes as profound as those that initiated the industrial era some 200 years ago postmodernism - correct answers ✅the belief that society is no longer governed by history or progress - it is highly pluralistic and diverse with no "grand narrative" guiding its developemnt relative deprivation - correct answers ✅the discrepancy between the lives people are forced to lead and what they think could be realistically achieved
Charles Tilley: components of collective action - correct answers ✅1. The organization of the group or groups involved.