Sociology Now, Census Update
Many child laborers work long hours that prohibit them from going to school or having a leisure life; according to the Internati ...
Most jobs in forced and bonded labor are technically legal, on farms and in factories, but 1.8 million work in the global sex tr ...
CHAPTER REVIEW 377 Chapter Review 1.What is “old” and “young”?Sociologists view age as a social construction, meaning it is not ...
378 CHAPTER 11AGE: FROM YOUNG TO OLD KeyTerms Adolescence (p. 349) Age cohort (p. 348) Age norms (p. 349) Ageism (p. 363) Baby b ...
WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 379 CRITICAL THINKING|DISCUSSION QUESTION How would you account for the racial differences in response ...
12 ■The Family Tree Families as Kinship Systems Culture and Forms of the Family The Family Unit The Development of the Family Th ...
ALMOST DAILY, WE HEARsome political pundit prophesy the end of the family. The crisis of the family is so severe that in 2000, t ...
The Family Tree Unlike most animals, human beings are born helpless. For the first few years of their lives, they require round- ...
as a “family tree.” Tracing your family tree is especially popular these days because it pro- vides a sense of history. Family t ...
women at the same time. Among the Yoruba of northern Nigeria, women can have only one husband, but theycan have as many wives as ...
moved in with their husbands’ family, or new husbands moved in with their wives’ family, or everyone kept right on living togeth ...
There was no distinction between family and society: Family life wassocial life. Families performed a whole range of functions l ...
Like the companionate marriage,in which individuals choose their marriage partners based on emotional ties and love, the nuclear ...
innocent of the more graphic aspects of life, like sex and death, and they needed love, nurturing, and constant care and attenti ...
did not use birth control, so their families tended to be larger than those of the Protes- tant immigrants, who did practice bir ...
outsiders. Although kin often shared strong emotional bonds, families did not develop primarily out of people’s desire for love, ...
who are demographically almost identical to White middle-class nuclear families (same percentage of married couples, two-parent ...
fall in love, you gradually realize that this one is “it,” and you decide to marry. His- torically, this has been a process know ...
people in their middle years into the world of dating again, until there was little stigma about dating at the age of 30, 40, or ...
unmarried partners by 63 percent, and unmar- ried partners with their children by 89 percent. In several developing countries, m ...
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