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Soc 101: Family and Religion
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
05/16/2010

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Endogamy
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Marriage between people of the same social category.
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Extended Family
Definition
The family, including parents and children, as well as other kin.
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The theoretical paradigm that traced the origin of the family to the need for men to pass property on to their sons.
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Social Conflict Theory.
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Romantic Love
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The feeling of affection and sexual passion toward another person as the basis of marriage.
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Incest Taboo
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A norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives.
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Focused her research on the relationship between social class and marriage.
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Lillian Rubin
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The theoretician who traced the origin of the family to the need for men to pass property on to their sons.
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Friedrich Engles
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Theorist who argue that families perpetuate social inequality in several ways, including property and inheritance, patriarchy, and race/ethnicity.
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Social Conflict Theorist
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Exogamy
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Marriage between people of different categories
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Divorce
Definition
Individualism is on the rise, women are financially independent, marriages today are stressful, romantic love subsides.
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The theoretical perspective that focuses on the socialization of children, support of all kinds.
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Structral Functional
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The first "no fault" divorce state.
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California
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Descent
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The system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations.
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Percentage of U.S. families with children under 18 that have only one parent in the household.
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29%
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Symbolic Interaction
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Focuses on creation of gender roles through the process of everyday interpersonal interaction.
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Cohabitation
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A living arrangement that appeals to those who favor gender equity. (divorce rate higher)
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Kinship
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A social bond based on common ancestry. marriage or adoption.
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In 1989, became the first nation to legalize same sex-marriage.
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Denmark
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Social Exchange
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A wife feels forced to tolerate abuse perpetrated by her husband because he has economic power in the relationship.
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Blended Families
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Families composed of children and SOME COMBINATION OF BIOLOGICAL PARENTS AND STEPPARENTS.
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Profane
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Refers to that which people defines as an ordinary part of everyday life. (Drukheim)
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A type of religious organization that is well integrated into the larger society.
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Church
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Fundamentalism
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Refers to a conservative religious doctrine that opposes intellectualism and worldly accommodation in favor of restoring traditional, otherworldly religion.
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Refers to belief based on conviction rather than scientific evidence.
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Faith
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Denomination
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A church independent of the state, that recognizes religious pluralism.
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A type of religious organization that is largely outside a society's cultural traditions.
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What is a CULT
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Denomination
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A church, independent of the state, that recognizes religious pluralism.
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The combining of Christian principles with political activism, often Marxist in character.
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Liberation Theology
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Religion
Definition
a social institution involving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred.
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Religiosity
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The importance of religion in a person's life.
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State Church
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A church formally linked to the state.
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The theoretician who referred to the ordinary elements of everyday life as the profane.
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Durkheim
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Refers to that which people set apart as extraordinary, inspiring a sense of awe and reverence.
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Sacred (Durkheim)
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Refers to the belief that elements of the natural world are conscious life forms that affect humanity.
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Animism
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Functions of Religion
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Social cohesion; Social control; providing meaning and purpose.
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Totem
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An object in the natural world collectively defined as sacred.
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Secularization
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Refers to the historical decline in the importance of the supernatural and the scared.
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Civil Religion
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A quasi-religious loyalty, binding individuals in a basically secular society.
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Religion serves elites by legitimizing the status quo. (by Marx)
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Social Conflict
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