Stephanie Coontz - How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families

Flashcards reviewing key concepts, empirical data, historical trends, and theoretical points from Stephanie Coontz's essay on family relationships, youth adolescence, and gender dynamics.

What 1997 article by Stephanie Coontz, serving as the introductory chapter to her book The Way We Really Are, demonstrates how taking a historical and sociological view helps address modern family issues?

How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families

According to statistics cited by researcher Mike Males, what were the actual suicide rates for 10- to 14-year-old youths in 1980 compared to 1992?

1 in 125,000 in 1980 compared to 1 in 60,000 in 1992

According to Kirk Astroth (1993), how much more likely are school administrators to commit suicide compared to high school students?

Six times as likely

According to Stephanie Coontz, what is the most common dilemma facing adolescents that causes the most conflicts with adults?

Their rolelessness in modern society

How does researcher Laurence Steinberg characterize modern adolescence due to extended schooling and the declining job market value of high school degrees?

As a social and economic holding period

What was the average age of puberty for American girls in 1820 compared to today?

Age 16 in 1820 compared to age 12 today

As late as 1886, what was the age of consent for girls in more than half of the states in the union?

10 years old

What percentage of employed adolescents aged 16-17 worked in traditional workplaces like farms, factories, or construction sites in 1940 compared to 1980?

60 percent in 1940 compared to 14 percent in 1980

What term does Stephanie Coontz use to describe the process where public spaces are gentrified and teenagers are no longer welcome on their own?

The adultification of public space

What concept, defined by Thomas Wartenberg (1988), does Stephanie Coontz use to describe how structural inequalities in economic resources, political power, and social status limit equal personal relationships?

Situated social power

What bestselling book by John Gray is cited by Coontz as popularizing the idea that men and women come from different planets?

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

According to therapist Betty Carter (1996), what is the risk of communicating about feelings without addressing underlying issues of power and daily behavior?

It can lead to manipulation that eventually degenerates into mutual blame and psychological name-calling.

In his 1992 article on anti-male bias in English, what standard phrase used to describe victims of war or terrorism does Eugene August critique?

innocent women and children

According to research by Cowan, Cowan, and Kerig (1993), in what types of psychopathologies are adolescent boys and girls overrepresented as a result of traditional gender roles?

Boys are overrepresented in psychopathologies involving aggression, while girls are overrepresented in those involving depression.

According to Stephanie Coontz, what is the ultimate solution for men and women seeking to relate with fairness and integrity?

To equalize their power and access to resources