Family and Education
The practice of having more than one spouse at a time.
What is polygamy?
An economic system in which property and goods are primarily privately owned; investments are determined by private decisions; and prices, production, and the distribution of goods are determined primarily by competition in an unfettered marketplace.
What is capitalism?
The things of mundane, everyday life.
What is profane?
action that takes place in groups and diverges from the social norms of the situation.
What is collective action?
This streaming platform’s original series Stranger Things features a group of kids facing supernatural forces in 1980s Indiana.
What is Netflix
Marriage to someone within one's social group.
What is endogamy?
A precapitalist economic system characterized by the presence of lords, vassals, serfs, and fiefs.
What is feudalism?
a general movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief toward a rational, scientific orientation, a trend adopted by industrialized nations in the form of separation of church and state.
What is secularism?
collective behavior that is purposeful and organized (but not ritualized) and that seeks to challenge or change one or more aspects of society through institutional and extra-institutional means.
What are social movements?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing.
What is the cult of domesticity?
a political system in which the means of production are shared through state ownership and in which rewards are tied not to productivity but to need, supposedly leading to a classless society.
What is communism?
The notion that science should be unaffected by the personal beliefs or values of scientists but rather follow objective rules of evidence.
What is the normative view of science?
social movements that advocate the radical reorganization of society.
What are revolutionary social movements?
This scientist proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection after studying finches in the Galápagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A way of dividing students into classes based on ability or future plans.
What is tracking?
The clear, rule-governed procedures used repeatedly for decision making.
What is routinization?
work done to maintain the border between legitimate and nonlegitimate science within a specific scientific discipline or between legitimate disciplines.
What is boundary work?
social relations characterized by rationality, bureaucratization, and objectivity as well as individuality created by nonconcentric, but overlapping, group affiliations
What is modernity?
A classic moral thought experiment; it asks whether it’s morally permissible to sacrifice one life to save five.
A hypothesis stating that parental resources are finite and that each additional child gets a smaller amount of them.
What is the resource dilution model?
A never-ending process of ordering or organizing.
What is rationalization?
promises of future rewards, such as salvation or eternity in heaven; rewards given in the afterlife. BTW remember this for your essay question.
What are supernatural compensators?
social relations characterized by a questioning of the notion of progress and history, the replacement of narrative with pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed affiliations
What is postmodernity
This 17th-century astronomer was tried by the Inquisition for advocating heliocentrism, the idea that Earth orbits the Sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?