Sociology

gender roles

Expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activites of males and females.

homophobia

Fear and prejudice against homosexuality

What states have the highest proportion of older people

Florida, Pennsalvaynia, Rhode Island, Iowa, West Virgina, and Arkansas.

Is love important?

For American culture it is, but it's not necessary in other cultures as they arrange marraiges based on economic and social background, and expect love to come in the relationship later on.

Only state permitting assited suicide.

Oregon

activity theory

those elderly people who remain active and socially involved will be the best adjusted.

Second shift

Descrbes a double burden-work outside the home followed by childcare and houseworke- that many women face and few men share equitably.

Marriage of woman more to one man

polyandry

glass ceiling

refers to an invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individuals gender, race or ethnicity.

egalitarian marriage

spouses are reguarded as equals. Wives may hold authority in some spheres, husbands in others, replace the patriarchial family as the social norm in the US

latent functions

unintended, covert, or hidden.

disengagement theory

which implicity suggests that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships. Functionalist perspective passing social roles from one generation to another ensures social stability.

exogamy

(greek outside) requires mate selection outside certain groups, usually ones own family or certain kinfolk.

AARP represents what % of voters?

1 out of every 4 voters. 25 % (43% of americans 50 older)

What are the properties of a minority group?

1. Members of a minority group expirence unequal treatment compared to members of a dominant group. 2. Members of a minority group share a physical or cultural characteristics that distinguish them from the dominant group. 3. Membership in a minority (or dominant) group is not voluntary ; people are born into the group. 4. Minority group members have a strong sense of group solidarity. 5. Members of a minority group generally marry others from the same group.

How do five properties if minorities apply to the elderly?

1. Older people experience unequal treatment in employment and many face prejudice and discrimination. 2. Older people share physical characteristics that distinguish them from younger people. 3. Membership in this disadvantaged group is involuntary. 4. Older people have a strong sense of group solidarity, as is reflected in the growth of senior citizens centers, retirement communities, and advocacy organizations. 5. Older people are generally married to others of comparable age.

functions performed by family

1. Reproduction 2. Protection 3.Socialization 4.Regulation of sexual behavior 5. Affection and compainionship 6. Provision of social status

Roe v. Wade

1973 supreme court granted women the right to terminate pregnacies. The ruling was based on a woman's right to privacy.

Amendment giving women the right to vote

19th ammendment

Illegal abortions %

40%

Women are ___ percentage of the workforce

45%

People over 65 are __% of the worlds population

7%

States with female govenor

8, one without a female gov. is Rhode Island

Exploitation

A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the united states as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.

serial monogamy

A form of marriage in which a person may have several spouses in his or her lifetime, but only one spouse at a time.

creationism

A litteral interpretation of the Bible reguarding the creation of humanity and the universe., used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.

Prejudice

A negative attitude toward and entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority.

What veil represents

A rejection of the beauty myth, their physical appearence will not play a role in their contacts outside their families.

Sect

A relitivly small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it considers the original version of the faith.

family

A set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed-on relationship, or adoption, who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.

religious beliefs

A statement to which members of a particular region adhere

Largest Minority in U.S.?

African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans.

Instrumentality

An emphasis on tasks, a focus on more distant goals, and a concern for the external relationship betweens one family and other social institutions.

Ideal minority group

Asian Americans because the have suceeded economically, socially, and educationally despite past prejudice and discrimination, and without resorting to the confrontations with Whites.

Amalgamation

Happens when a majority group and a minority group combine to form a new group.

monotheistic religions

Hinduism

Banned the Hijab

In some Non-Muslim countries, notably France, officials have come under fire for banning the hijab, or head scarf, in public schools.

Normal operations of society

Institutional Discrimination

2nd largest faith

Islam

Percentage of interruptions by sex?

Males interrupt females 96% of the time.

Protestant ethic

Max Webers term for the disciplined work ethic,this worldly concerns, and rational oreintation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.

In which ethnic or racial group are there the most suicides?

Native Americans

Institutional Discrimination

Refers to the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.

Cultural universal

Religion

Disenchantment phase

Retirees feel a sense of letdown or even depression as they cope with their new lives, which may include illness or poverty.

Contact Hypothesis

States that in cooperative circumstances, interracial contact between people of equal status will cause them to become less prejudiced and to abandon old stereotypes.

Sexism

The Idealogy that one sex is superior to the other.

Euthansia

The act of bringing about death of a hoplessly ill and suffering person in a relativly quick and painless way for reasons of mercy.

Rules requiring that only English be spoken.

The commision on Civil Rights has identified various forms of institutional discrimination.

Homogamy

The conscious or unconsious tendency to select a mate with personal characteristics similar to ones own.

Role of marriage to upper class

The emphasis is on lineage and maintencence of a family position.

Aspects of male gender role

The male gender role besides being antifeminine (no sissy stuff), includes proving ones masculinity at work and sports-often by using force when dealing with others-as well as initiating and controlling all sexual relations.

False statements about marriage

The media frequently report that one out of every two marriges end in divorce, but that figure is misleading.

Profane

The ordinary and common place elements of life, as distinguished from the sacred. Like a dinning room table becomes sacred if it bears elements of communion.

What is the social construction of race?

The process of defining races typically benifits those who have more power and privilege than others. People learn informally that differences in skin color have a dramtic social and political meaning.

Assmilation

The process through which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.

secularization

The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.

gerontology

The scientific study of the sociological and psycological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.

Ethocentrism

The tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.

Religion

Unified system of beleifs and practices relative to sacred things.

Liberations theology

Use of a church , primarily roman catholicism, in a political effory to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice of a secular society.

Who has majority of unmarried teenage mothers?

White girls

bilateral discent

both sides of a persons family are regarded as equally important.

polyandry

a woman may have more than one husband at the same time.

sandwhich generation

adults who simultaneously try to meet the competive needs of their parents and their children.

5 stages of death

denial, anger, barganing, depression, acceptance.

Sacred

elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe, respect, and even fear.