Sociology 4 11 11 2015 Chapter 12 12 1 Marriage and Family in Global Perspective What is Family What is Marriage Common Cultural Themes o Some form of ritual table 12 1 12 2 Marriage and Family in Theoretical Perspective The Functional Perspective Functions and Dysfunctions The conflict Perspective Struggles Between Husband and Wife The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Gender Housework and Child Care Figure 12 1 12 3 The Family Lie Cycle Love and Courtship in Global Perspective Marriage Childbirth o DINK Dual Income No Kids Child Rearing Family Transitions 12 4 Diversity in US Families African American Families o More single parent households Latino Families o Talk about the difference in generation Asian American Families o Longer lasting and longer standing Native American Families o 2 of population in America o Very close to their traditional ways of life One Parent Families o Mostly led by women Couples Without Children Blended Families Gay and Lesbian Families Adopt kids These children do not become gay themselves Their problems are like everyone else s problems Most times people under 18 are less likely to live with both parents Family Structure is usually due to divorce Trends in U S families The changing timetable of family life marriage and childbirth Cohabitation o In 1970s it was not really a thing The sandwich generation and elder care Divorce and Remarriage Ways of Measuring Divorce o 50 chance your marriage will end in divorce Divorce and Intermarriage Children of Divorce emotional problems Grandchildren of divorce o Children whose parents divorce are more likely to experience o These children are more likely to be stressed all children have problems during a certain time in their life Father s contact with Children after divorce o Men who were married to the mothers of the children especially those who are older more educated and have higher incomes more likely talk to their children after a divorce o Many divorced couples maintain contact because of their The Ex spouses children o Remarriage o Nowadays it is becoming a trend to re marry o of people remarry one or more times Two sides of family life incest The dark side of family life battering child abuse marital rape and The bright side of family life successful marriages o The longer you ve been married you tend to have more health benefits Symbolic interactionism and the misuse of statistics o Micro level The Future of Marriage and Family Sociological research allows us to see how our own family experiences fit into the patterns of our culture Chapter 13 Education and Religion Education in Global Perspective The education system reflects it culture o Education in the Most Industrialized Nations Japan Functionalist perspective they re more focused on o Education in the Industrializing Nations Russia Different education system because they used to be a teamwork socialist country You should be given information and that is it you cannot think out of box People are starting to think more freely o Education in the Least Industrialized Nations Egypt The Functionalist Perspective Providing Social Benefits o Teaching knowledge and skills o Cultural transmission of values o Social integration Helps how to navigate in society interacting with other cultures races sexual oriented people o Gatekeeping Social Placement Placing people in certain tracks that determine your o The hidden curriculum Reproducing the Social Class Structure path in life o Replacing Family functions o Other functions The Conflict Perspective Perpetuation Social Inequality What you learn from your peers o Tilting the Tests Discrimination by IQ o Stacking the Deck Unequal Funding o The Correspondence Principle o The Bottom Line Family Background The Symbolic Perspective Teacher expectations o The Rist Research o The Rosenthal Jacobson Experiment o How do teacher expectations work Self fulfilling prophecy o A false assumption of something that is going to happen but which the comes true simply because it was predicted 13 4 The symbolic Interactionist Perspective Teacher Expectations November 18 2015 13 7 What is Religion Religion o Beliefs o Practices o A moral community The functionalist perspective o Functions of religion o Functional Equivalents of religion o Dysfunctions of religion The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective o Religious symbols cross the star of david o Rituals baptism praying to mecca 5x a day o Beliefs mostly focused around those symbols What helps people get through difficult situations o Religious experience o Community The Conflict Perspective o Opium of the people o Legitimating social inequalities Religion and the Spirit of Capitalism o Religion Primary Source of Social Change o Calvinism Protestant Ethic o Spirit of Capitalism Types of religious Groups o Cult o Sect o Church o When religion and culture conflict Religion in the U S Characteristics of Members Characteristics of Religious Groups Secularization of Religion and Culture Chapter 14 Popullization and Urbanization A planet with no space for enjoying life o The New Malthusians o The Anti Malthusians o Who is correct o Why are people starving o Malthe Population Growth He says that people increase exponentially therefore we will run out of food eventually o Why the least industrialized nations have so many children o Consequences of rapid population growth o Population pyramids as a tool for understanding Predict by age and sex o The three demographic variables Fertility mortality and migration o Problems in forecasting population growth Economic cycles wars and famines to industrialization and gov t The Development of Cities o The process of urbanization o U S Urban Patterns o The Rural Rebound William Julius Wilson o Works at Harvard o Race and class issues o Says that class determines your future The World s Megacities Metropolis concentrated city suburbs o Ex Dallas Megalopoly overlap of 2 metropolies o Ex NYC Long Island D C Megacity o 10 million o Bejing NYC Models of Urban Growth The concentric zone model The sector model The multiple nuclei model The peripheral model Critique of the models City Life Alienation of the city Community in the city Who lives in the city The norm of noninvolvement and the diffusion of responsibility Urban Problems and social policy Suburbanization Disinvestment and deindustrialization The potential of urban revitalization Urban Growth and Urban Flight 14 15 11 11 2015 11 11 2015