Sociology test 4

Nuclear family

Consists of cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child.

Blended family

Families formed when at least one of the partners in the marriage has been married before and has one or more children from a previous marriage.

Antitrust lawsuits are for what?

laws designed to maintain competition in the marketplace by prohibiting monopolies, price fixing, or other forms of collusion among businesses

Cohabitation

living together as a romantically involved, unmarried couple

Instrumental tasks

the practical physical tasks necessary to maintain family life

Concentration of medial power

the process by which the number of companies producing and distributing a particular commodity decreases, often through mergers and conglomeration

Miscegenation laws

the prohibition of interracial marriage, cohabitation, or sexual interaction

Who most likely receives custody in a divorce?

95% of children in single-parent families are in single-mother families

How do sociologist define family?

A social group whose members are bound by legal, biological, or emotional ties, or a combination of all three.

What percent of women in the US will suffer physical violence at the hands of a romantic partner?

As many as ½ of married women in the U.S. are victims of spousal violence.

Textual poaching

Henry Jenkin's term describing the ways that audience members manipulate an original cultural product to create a new one; a common way for fans to exert some control over the media they consume.

Exogamy

Marriage outside of one's own social category

Endogamy

Marriage within one's own social category

Interpretive community

a group of people dedicated to the consumption and interpretation of a particular cultural product and who create a collective, social meaning for the product

Third Places

any informal public place where people come together regularly for conversation and camaraderie when not at work or at home

Domestic violence

any physical, verbal, financial, sexual, or psychological behaviors abusers use to gain and maintain power over their victims

Write down the definition of recreation found in your text book- you are going to use it to figure out which activity sounds like recreation.

any satisfying, amusing, and stimulating activity that is experienced as refreshing and renewing for body, mind, and spirit

Uses and gratifications paradigm

approaches to understanding media effects that focus on individuals' psychological or social needs that consumption of various media fulfills

Propinquity

the tendency to marry or have relationships with people in close geographic proximity

Second shift-

the unpaid housework and child care often expected of women after they complete their day's paid labor