Family
This social structure consists of one or two parents and their children.
nuclear family
This is a marriage in which a person is married to more than one person at the same time.
Polygamy
33% of all of the women murdered in the U.S. each year, will be killed by their _____________ or ____________.
husbands / boyfriends
This consists of the unwritten academic curriculum that children are taught in schools. It prepares the students for success in social situations as adults.
Hidden Curriculum
In the early 1900s, school systems in America were modeled after America's ______________.
Factories
Compared to all of the other social institutions that exist in a society, the family has the greatest impact on ______________ ___________________.
individual behavior
This is a family pattern in which the oldest male has most of the authority over the family.
Patriarchy
This trend involves 1 out of 4 of the current marriages in the U.S. today. Polls suggest that these marriages are slightly happier than most other married couples.
Childless Marriages
This is a social system in which individual success is determined by ability, talent, hard work, and achievement.
Meritocracy
Schools that use the Integrative Curriculum strategy allow the teachers and ______________ to develop the academic curriculum.
Students
This term describes a marriage between two people that are from two very different social classes.
Exogamy
Homogamy is marrying someone with very similar characteristic, this term just means marrying someone in your same social group.
Endogamy
There are currently over 40 million Americans that are over the age of 15 that _________ ____________.
live alone
This term suggests that a major concern exists with standardized tests because many believe they are designed for middle class students.
Cultural Bias
________ schools are actually public schools that are operated like private schools. Public school teachers teach in these schools but they use the rules and practices of private schools.
Charter
These social behaviors are so disturbing they are rejected by almost all societies around the world.
taboo
This is a family pattern where the oldest female has the authority within the family.
Matriarchy
This current trend in the U.S. has recently plunged to a 150 year low. Today in the U.S. only 50% of adults live with their ________.
Spouse
This is the act of placing students in classes based on their academic projections. The hope is that the students will learn at the same pace. A concern is that race and social status may play a role in placement.
Tracking
This idea for education reform calls for using public tax dollars to fund private or religious schools.
Voucher System
This form of polygamy consists of a marriage of one woman to at least two or more men.
Polyandry
This form of polygamy consists of one man to at least two or more women at the same time.
polygyny
83% of these family structures in the U.S. involve an important role by women.
single parent families
This term suggests that people have predictions about themselves or others, then they produce behaviors or beliefs to make those predictions become true.
self-fulfilling prophecy
This modern education strategy calls for a non-competitive environment, in which students learn at their own pace and report cards are abandoned.
Open Classroom