A heterosexual couple and their children living in the same household
What is a nuclear family?
100
The reason remarriage rates are lower today than in the 1960s.
What is cohabitation?
100
This theoretical perspective which views society as a whole unit made up of interrelated parts, working together
What is structural functionalism?
100
The ability to understand another culture on its own terms
What is cultural relativism?
100
Systems and structures that persist over time and meet basic needs and help to organize group life
What is social institution?
200
An adult child who leaves home, but later returns for at least a short period of time.
What is a boomerang kid (child)?
200
A form of abuse that involves denying someone proper shelter and food
What is neglect?
200
This theory focuses on the way we interpret, make sense of and define: ourselves, others, and social situations
What is symbolic interactionism?
200
The 4 predominant agents of socialization in contemporary society
What are family, peers, schools, and mass media?
200
A group of relatives living in the same household
extended family
300
The physical and legal responsibility of caring for children.
What is custody?
300
The range of behaviors that abusers use to gain and maintain control over their victims
What is domestic violence?
300
economic production
socialization of children
care of the sick and aged
recreation
sexual control
reproduction
What are the six basic functions of family according to functionalists?
300
The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society
What is the sociological imagination?
300
The marriage practice of being married to one partner at a time.
What is monogamy?
400
This has increased more than 500% since 1950
What is the percentage of marriages that end in divorce?
400
A type of abuse that is likely to go unreported because the victims are relatively powerless
What is elder abuse or child abuse?
400
This theorist may assert that families are an institution designed to perpetuate social inequality
What is a conflict theorist?
400
This covers a variety of disciplines, including sociology. It studies the way people behave and influence the world.
What is social science?
400
an interdependent social group bound by legal, biological, or emotional ties
What is family?
500
A system of marriage that allows for multiple spouses?
What is polygamy?
500
The percentage of seniors living in poverty in the USA
What is ten?
500
Which one of the following isn't one of the five basic social institutions found in human groups?
Family, Religion, Media, Government, Economy, Education
What is Media?
500
Terry moved to a new state. Terry spends much time comparing and judging the social habits of his new home to his former home. Terry is being this.
What is ethnocentric?
500
The stage in the cycle of violence where both partners sense that something is going to happen