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1. the essential characteristic of a minority group is

Legal immigration: strongly connected to family ties- latino, asian, european, other (in order of numbers) Illegal immigration: 2011 US Census estimate 11.5 million undocumented immigrants - 59% from mexico. el salvador, guatemala, honduras, and china comprise bulk of remainderPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusthe differential treatment and exclusion its members experience

2. Systems of Generational Relationships

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusLegal immigration: strongly connected to family ties- latino, asian, european, other (in order of numbers) Illegal immigration: 2011 US Census estimate 11.5 million undocumented immigrants - 59% from mexico. el salvador, guatemala, honduras, and china comprise bulk of remainderPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)

3. too limited by contemporary standards

Legal immigration: strongly connected to family ties- latino, asian, european, other (in order of numbers) Illegal immigration: 2011 US Census estimate 11.5 million undocumented immigrants - 59% from mexico. el salvador, guatemala, honduras, and china comprise bulk of remainderthe differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencePatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social status

4. Contemporary Immigration

Legal immigration: strongly connected to family ties- latino, asian, european, other (in order of numbers) Illegal immigration: 2011 US Census estimate 11.5 million undocumented immigrants - 59% from mexico. el salvador, guatemala, honduras, and china comprise bulk of remainderSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)the differential treatment and exclusion its members experience

5. Judaism

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusa set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible (tanakh) and further explored and explained in the talmud and other textsPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)

6. Animism

Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)the differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencethe belief in inanimate, personalized spirits of ghosts of ancestors that take an interest, in and actively work to influence, human affairs

7. The Concept of Race

Patrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)the differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statuscategory of people who are defined as similar because of a number of physical characteristics

8. The Functionalist Perspective

Patrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)the differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencesatisfying individual need: Sigmund Freud -social cohesion: emile durkheim -establishing world views: max weber -adaptations to society: marvin harris/durkheimSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social status

9. in traditional India, women are cut off from the outside world because they

10. What characteristics does Louis Wirth speak of in his definition of a minority

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceculturalPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social status

11. Family Structures

Patrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Nuclear family: most basic form; married couple with biological or adopted children -Polygamous family: central individual married to several spouses- polyandrous when the central person is female and the multiple spouses are male. biological or adopted children -Extended family: includes other generations and relations/cooperative unitthe differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social status

12. A Sociological Approach to Religion

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencePatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Functionalist Perspective: examines the functions that religion plays in social life | Conflict Theorists: view religion as a means for justifying the political status quoSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social status

13. Assimilation

Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusthe process whereby groups with different cultures come to have a common culture. -fusion of cultural heritages -integration of new elements with old ones -transfer of culture from one group to another -includes problem of selection; ancient ideologies, habits, customs, attitudes, and languagethe differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencePatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)

14. Kenneth and Elaine are a young American couple about to be married for the fist time. it is likely that...

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencePatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statuskenneth and elaine will be about the same age, with kenneth being slightly older

15. many of todays major religions began as cults and sects. true or false

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencetrueSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)

16. interracial marriages in the US..

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceinvolve grooms who tend to have more education than those in homogenous marriages, more likely to involve at least one previously married partner, involve brides and grooms who are older than the national avgPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social status

17. which sociologist believed that women should not be allowed to work outside of the home

Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusauguste comtePatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)the differential treatment and exclusion its members experience

18. Childhood Socialization

Patrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusthe differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceparent response and training based on their perception of what girls and boys are like and should be -parents' responses to girls and boys differ from the beginning: girls are caressed more than boys, boys are jostled and roughhoused more -mothers talk more to their daughters -fathers interact more with their sons

19. Interracial Marriage

marriage between two people of differing racial groupsthe differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)

20. Major Types of Religions

21. Emile Durkheim and Religion

the differential treatment and exclusion its members experienceSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Elementary forms of religious life(1915) -religions divide the universe into two mutually exclusive categories: =profane: empirically observable things =sacred: things inspiring and knowable only through extraordinary experience

22. which occupation do women outnumber men

Patrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)financial managersSocial Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusthe differential treatment and exclusion its members experience

23. romantic love is closely associated with marriage in most societies. true or false.

Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)the differential treatment and exclusion its members experiencefalse

24. Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Relations

assimilation, pluralism, subjugation, segregation, explusion, annihilationPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusthe differential treatment and exclusion its members experience

25. Traditional Family Decline

Social Functions of Family -regulating sexual behavior -patterning reproduction -organizing production and consumption -socializing children -providing care and protection -providing social statusPatrilineal System: ties and dominance through male (father) lineage -Matrilineal System: ties and dominance through female (mother) lineage (less common) -Bilateral System: ties through both male and female lineage (most common in united states)postponement of marriage -single parent homes, divorced or never married parent -decline in marriage rate. cohabitation increase -childless marriage -household size decline -impact of divorcethe differential treatment and exclusion its members experience

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