How you met your boo
Number one purpose of dating?
Mate selection
Type of social mobility that refers to moving between classes i.e. from lower to middle class.
Vertical Mobility
What is the divorce rate in the United States?
50% (within 5%)
True or False? A characteristic of minority group is the practice of endogamy.
True
What population must be surpassed for a city to be considered a mega city?
10 million
Is courtship or dating formal?
Courtship
What class do most people place themselves in when given the choice between the 3 classes?
Middle Class
What percent of children live in a single parent family?
26% (within 5%)
Blending of culturally distinct groups is known as?
Assimilation
List two common mega city challenges?
Transportation, Electrical consumption, Health care, and crime
What day did the man have to ask the girl by to ask them out?
Wednesday
What is the name of the method where people place themselves in a class?
Subjective Method
How long until most divorcees remarry?
5 years
Someone that isn´t prejudice, but is pressured to act prejudice may be labeled as a what?
Fair weather liberal
A population growth of 1% will double population in how many years?
70 years
When did contemporary dating dating patterns become common?
Post 1960
What are all three types of social mobility?
Vertical, Horizontal, and Intergenerational
What are 4 reasons divorce is more common today?
Easier divorce laws, Less expensive, No fault divorce, Women work, Day care, and Higher standards in marriage.
Name and describe the two types of segregation.
De jure - based on law
De facto - based on inferred norms
What were positive checks Thomas Malthus suggested to limit population growth?
War, disease, and famine.
What were the 3 reasons for the emergence of dating?
Industrial Revolution
Free Secondary Education
Rise of Technology such as cars and phones
Most Sociologist use a 6 class system, what are the 6 classes?
Upper, Upper middle, Lower middle, Working, Working poor, and Underclass
What are three overloads associated with single parent stress?
Responsibility overload, Task overload, Emotional overload, and Financial overload.
What are 2 out of the 5 characteristics of a minority group?
Identifiable physical/cultural characteristics differ from norm
Group members victim of unequal treatment
Membership is ascribed status
Members have a strong bond with group loyalty
Practice endogamy
Name or describe 3 of the identifiable lifestyle in urban dwellers identified by Herbert Gans?
Cosmopolites, unmarried/childless, ethnic villagers, deprived, the trapped