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