Families
Social unit based on kinship relations, a construct of meaning, and emotional and economic relationships.
What is a family?
The risk of confirming in oneself a characteristic that is a negative stereotype.
What is a stereotype threat?
A workplace that violates more than one federal or state labor law; the term has come to include exploitation of workers, for example, in workplaces with no livable wages or benefits, poor and hazardous working conditions, and possible verbal or physical abuse.
What is a sweatshop?
The level of childbearing for an individual or a population.
What is fertility?
Communication that is deinstitutionalized, where the user produces information and communication that is interactive and networked.
What is social media?
Family consisting of parents and their children.
What is a nuclear family?
A child prepared by education for a bureaucratic adult world.
What is an organizational child?
Employment under less-than-optimal conditions regarding pay, skill, or working hours.
What is underemployment?
Rate of infant deaths per 1,000 live births.
What is infant mortality?
The ability to assess and analyze media messages.
What is media literacy?
Two or more adult generations, related by blood, who live together in a single household.
What are extended families?
Cultural skills and knowledge passed on to youth by their parents and through their social and economic position.
What is cultural capital?
Economic shift toward service and information occupations.
What is the service revolution?
Incidence of death in a population.
What is mortality?
An individual’s ability to appropriately use digital tools and skills to identify, manage, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize digital sources; to construct new knowledge; and to communicate with others.
What is digital literacy?
A stable set of statuses, roles, groups, and organizations that provide a foundation for addressing fundamental societal needs; an example of a social institution is the family.
What are social institutions?
Investments in social relationships and networks distributed unequally by social class.
What is social capital?
A process of increasing transborder connectedness; the basis may be economic, political, environmental, or social.
What is globalization?
Study of illnesses and disease.
What is morbidity?
The gap separating individuals who have access to and understanding of new forms of technology from those who do not.
What is the digital divide?
The promotion of heterosexual, married, monogamous, white, and upper-middle-class norms.
What is heteronormativity?
Designation of academic courses for students based on presumed aptitude.
What is tracking?
Systematic disinvestment in manufacturing and production capacities.
What is deindustrialization?
Study of patterns in the distribution and frequency of sickness, injury, and death and the social factors that shape them.
What is epidemiology?
Creating a favorable impression of oneself to others.
What is impression management?