Modern Families
This is when two unmarried adults in a committed relationship live together.
Cohabitation
Durkheim’s Functions of Deviance suggests that no act is inherently _____.
Criminal
This sociological definition of family focuses on how families provide for the physical, social, and emotional needs of individuals and of society
Functionalist
Society’s power to limit deviance by enforcing conformity to expected norms and values is called what?
Social Control
Public school funding comes primarily through what?
local and state governments
In the United States, most people assume ___ will guide the way through selecting a partner
Love
This theory states that physical signs in a community indicate a corresponding breakdown of social order where deviance thrives
Broken Window Hypothesis
This definition of family is in terms of blood, connecting people biologically, and law, which connects people through formal social recognitions
Substantive
Elizabeth steals a pair of sunglasses from a kiosk in the mall. A security guard stops her, and prohibits her from shopping at the mall forever. What kind of social control is the security guard implementing?
Formal social control
Name one of the five essential functions education serves
Culture transmission, social integration, soft skills and job training, cultural innovation, and childcare
This term describes a type of family in which a married couple and their unmarried children live together in a household
Nuclear family
This theory describes how inequality can create situations in which people experience tension between the goals society says they should be working toward and the legitimate means they have available to meet those goals
Merton’s Strain Theory
This type of descent is when the father’s relatives are the ones considered and is preferred by most societies.
Patrilineal descent
The Milgram experiment tested ______, which is following the orders of a person in authority
Obedience
This term describes an increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field
Credentialism
Name 1 reason why dual income families have increases in recent decades
Women have more opportunity (education and occupation), couples are finding it harder to make it on a single income, etc.
This theory is attempts to explain why some people are defined as deviant while other people engaging in the same behavior are not
Labelling theory
This authority pattern in a family if when both spouses are regarded as equal and either share or designate responsibilities so that the burden falls on both spouses equally
Egalitarian
____ is labeling individuals or members of a group as less than whole persons due to some attribute that marks them as different in the eyes of others.
Stigma
Title __ played a pivotal role in expanding access to education for women
Nine
The recent surge of multigenerational families, especially after the Recession in 2009 and COVID, has been mainly driven by ____
Young adult children living with their parents
Part of Sutherland’s Cultural Transmission Theory, this theory of deviance holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Differential Association
This type of mate selection requires selection outside of certain groups, usually one’s own family
Exogamy
This term describes the variations in the was social control is exercised over different groups
Differential justice
Horace Mann called education the “___________” because he believed that public schools would ensure that children without means would share the same classrooms, curriculum, and experiences with children well-off, thus providing everyone a chance for success
The Great Equilizer