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Chapter 1 Trends/Theories/Diversity

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Nuclear Family   a family group consisting of parents and their biological or adopted children  
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single-parent family   one parent and his or her biological or adopted children  
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blended family   a family created by remarriage and includes at least one child from a prior relationship  
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extended family   one’s relatives beyond the nuclear and blended family level  
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Intimacy   the social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and physical trust that is mutually shared between family members  
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socialization   parents, family, and friends transmit the culture of the mainstream society and the family to the newborn  
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social construction of reality   what people define as real because of their background assumptions and life experiences with others  
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Primary socialization   all the ways the newborn is molded into a social being capable of interacting in and meeting the expectations of society  
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Secondary socialization   occurs in later childhood and adolescence when children go to school and come under the influence of non-family members  
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third level of socialization   occurs as we assume adult roles such as wife/husband/employee/etc  
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Unwed mothers   mothers who are not legally married at the time of the child’s birth  
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Ascribed status   present at birth and is said to be unchangeable (race, sex, or class  
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Achieved status   attained through one’s choices and efforts (college student, movie star, teacher, or athlete)  
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Master Status   a status which stands out above other statuses and which distracts others from seeing who one really is  
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Role strain   the burden one feels due to the varied roles within any given status  
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role conflict   when the roles in one status come into conflict with the roles in another status  
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group   set of two or more people who share a common identity, interact regularly, have shared expectations, and function in their mutually agreed upon roles  
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aggregate   number of people in the same place at the same time  
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category   number of people who share common characteristics  
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Dyads   groups with two people  
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triads   groups with three people  
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primary groups   tend to be small, informal, and intimate (e.g., families, friends)  
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secondary groups   tend to be larger, more formal, and much less personal (e.g., a study group, an individual and his coworker.)  
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Personal troubles   private problems experienced within the character of the individual and the range of their immediate relation to others  
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Public issues   beyond one’s personal control and the range of one’s inner life. These pertain to society’s organization and processes  
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Social facts   social processes rooted in society rather than in the individual  
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false social consciousness   an ignorance of social facts and the larger social picture  
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Culture   the shared values, norms, symbols, language, objects, and way of life that is passed on from one generation to the next  
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Ethnocentrism   the tendency to judge others based on our own experiences  
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cultural relativism   the tendency to look for the cultural context in which differences in cultures occur  
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life chances   access to basic opportunities and resources in the marketplace  
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family of origin   the family into which one was born in  
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family of procreation   the family one creates by marriage, childbirth, adoption  
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Demography   the scientific study of population growth and change  
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natural increase   all births minus all deaths in a given population over a given time period  
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net migration   all in-migration minus all out-migration in a given population over a given time period  
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Theories   sets of interrelated concepts and ideas that have been scientifically tested and combined to magnify, enlarge, clarify, and expand our understanding of people, their behaviors, and their families.  
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macro theories   theories which best fit the study of massive numbers of people (typically Conflict and Functional theories)  
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micro theories,   theories which best fit the study of small groups and their members (typically Symbolic Interactionism).  
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STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM THEORY   claims society in state of balance, kept that way through function of society’s component parts. Society studied same way human body studied: analyzing specific systems are working/not working, diagnosing problems, devising solutions restore balance.  
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Equilibrium   the state of balance maintained by social processes that help society adjust and compensate for forces that might tilt it onto a path of destruction  
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Symbolic Interactionism   claims that society is composed of ever-present interactions among individuals who share symbols and their meanings  
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The Thomas Theorem   often called the “definition of the situation.” It says that if people perceive or define something as being real, then it becomes real in its consequences  
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Family Systems Theory   the family is understood best by conceptualizing it as a complex, dynamic, and changing collection of parts, subsystems and family members  
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Boundaries   distinct emotional, psychological, or physical separateness between individuals, roles, and subsystems in the family  
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flexibility   When a family experiences a crisis, often these boundaries are rearranged.  
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Family Developmental Theory   used to explain patterns of change, the dynamic nature of families, and how change occurs within the family life cycle  
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stage 1 of the family life cycle   Stage 1: Married Couples without Children.  
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stage 2 of the family life cycle   Stage 2: Childbearing Families which starts at the birth of the first child and continues until the oldest child is 2½ years old.  
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stage 3 of the family life cycle   Stage 3: Families with Preschool Children where the oldest child is 2½ -6 years old.  
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stage 4 of the family life cycle   Stage 4: Families with Schoolchildren where the oldest child is 6-13 years old.  
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stage 5 of the family life cycle   Stage 5: Families with Teenagers where the oldest child is 13-20 years old.  
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stage 6 of the family life cycle   Stage 6: Families as Launching Centers. This starts when the first child leaves home and continues until the last child leaves home.  
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stage 7 of the family life cycle   Stage 7: Middle-Age Parents which continues until retirement.  
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stage 8 of the family life cycle   Stage 8: Aging Families which continues until the death of one spouse.  
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developmental tasks   growth responsibilities that arise at certain stages in the life of the family.  
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social exchange theory   marital quality and stability have posited that individuals weigh the costs and benefits of mate selection and of remaining in a marriage. used to guide the investigation of divorce  
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Outcomes   rewards or costs which are received or incurred by actors from each other in an exchange relationship.  
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Resources   possessions or behavioral capabilities (human capital) which have value to others and to oneself (e.g., a husband’s job and income have value to his wife)  
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Alternatives   the variety of possible exchange relations available to individuals.  
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exchange relationship is imbalanced   the individual who is less dependent will have the most power, or the power advantage  
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Ecological Theory   interdependent environment; whole system/parts interdependent/operate relation each; change part affects whole/other parts; dependent world resources; family development; family interact environments; interactions regulated laws nature/human-derived rules  
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microsystem   immediate social settings in which an individual is involved in  
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mesosystem   links two microsystems together, direct or indirectly  
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exosystem   settings in which the person does not actively participate but in which significant decisions are made affecting other individuals who do interact directly with the person  
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macrosystem   the “blueprints” for defining and organizing the institutional life of the society, including overarching patterns of culture, politics, economy, etc  
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chronosystem   encompasses change or consistency over time in the characteristics of the person and the environment in which the person lives (e.g., changes in family structure, SES, place of residence and community, society, cultural, and historical changes)  
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Feminist theory   under critical theory umbrella, purpose of destabilizing systems of power/oppression. considers lived experience of any person/people, not just women, with an emphasis on oppression. feminism is movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression  
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positivism   scientifically-based sociological research that uses scientific tools such as survey, sampling, objective measurement, and cultural and historical analysis to study and understand society  
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social statics   why societies remain the same  
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social dynamics   why societies change  
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objectivity   the ability to study and observe without distortion or bias, especially personal bias  
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agents   people who use their agency to make choices based on their varied motivations  
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hypothesis   the researcher’s educated belief about what they will find  
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probability samples   each member of the population has a known chance of being selected  
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nonprobability sampling   members are selected from the population in some nonrandom manner  
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random sampling   each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected  
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Convenience sampling   used when you don’t have a list of everyone in your population so you choose participants because they are convenient to you  
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quantitative data   data that is, or can be converted to, numbers  
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qualitative data   data that can’t be converted to numbers; data that is about the quality of something  
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validity   the study must actually test what you intended to test  
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reliability   the ability to repeat findings of a research study  
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surveys   research instruments designed to obtain information from individuals who belong to a larger group, organization, or society  
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Polls   surveys which collect opinions  
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response rate   the percentage of people who complete your survey  
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Valid survey questions   questions that are accurate and measure what they claim they’ll measure  
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Reliable questions   questions that are relatively free from bias errors which might taint the findings  
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Open-ended questions   questions designed to get respondents to answer in their own words  
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Closed-ended questions   questions designed to get respondents to choose from a list of responses you provide to them  
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Likert scale questions   statements which respondents are asked to agree or disagree with  
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Demographic questions   questions which provide the basic categorical information about respondents such as age, sex, race, educational level, marital status, etc  
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Nominal level data   data with no standard numerical values  
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Ordinal level data   categories with an order to them  
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Interval level data   categories with an order, but we add standard numerical values with regular intervals  
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Ratio level data   adds a real zero starting point for the numerical values  
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Variables   vary by respondent  
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Dependent variables   change in response to the influence of independent variables; they depend upon the independent variables  
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Independent variables   variables that when manipulated will stimulate a change upon the dependent variables  
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mean   the arithmetic score of all the numbers divided by the total number of students  
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median   the exact midpoint value in the ordered list of scores  
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mode   the number which occurs most often  
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outliers   the especially low or high numbers in the series  
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Ethics   standards of what is right and wrong  
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secondary analysis   When a researcher analyzes existing data  
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