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• gender stratification

• gender stratification

Unequal access of males and females to property, power, and prestige.

• sex

• Biological characteristics that distinguish females and males.

• gender

• Behavior and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females.

• patriarchy

• Men have authority.

• honor killing

• Women would get punished for doing disrespectful things towards the husband and family.

  • (Afghanistan, India, and Jordan)

• feminism

• The philosophy that men and women should be politically, economically, and socially equal.

• colleges using affirmative action for male students

• Some colleges have initiated affirmative action polices to admit more men.

• what is the ratio of men and women in the workforce?

• Women are about 1 in 2 in the work force, a gender gap in pay occurs in all industrialized nations.

  • Today, more women than men attend college.

• testosterone bonus

• • Today, more women than men attend college.

• industrialized nations and gender pay gap

• Industrialization brings more material goods, higher standard of living

  • More food

  • Better water supply

  • Better housing

  • More effective ways of fighting diseases that kill children

  • People live longer

• what is the gender pay gap due to?

College degrees are gender linked (career choices).

Women are more likely to choose lower paying jobs- while men go into better-paying fields/jobs.

1/2 of the pay gap is due to the career choice.

• sexual harassment

• Abuse of ones position of authority to force unwanted sexual demands

• age of majority of rape victims

• 16-19 years of age

• number of female voters vs. male voters

• Female voters greatly outnumber male voters

• life expectancy

• The number of years that an average person can live

  • From 1900 to the present, life expectancy has been greater for women

• graying of America

• Refers to hair color and that old people have gray hair.

  • The growing percentage of older people in the us population.

• life span

• The longest that a human has lived

• age of oldest person documented by a birth certificate

• 122, in France

• ageism

• Prejudice and discrimination that can be directed against any age group.

• age cohort

• Made up of people born at roughly the same time who pass through the life course together.

• disengagement theory

• Society is stabilized by having the elderly retire from responsibilities so the younger generation can step into their shoes.

• activity theory

• the view that satisfaction during old age is related to a person’s amount and quality of activity

polyandry

• A form of marriage in which women have more than one husband

• polygyny

• A form of marriage in which men have more than one wife

• family

• two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption

• household

• people who occupy the same housing unit

• nuclear family

• a family consisting of a husband, wife, and child(ren)

• extended family

• a family in which relatives, such as the “older generation” or unmarried aunts and uncles, live with the parents and their children

• family of orientation

• the family in which a person grows up

• family of procreation

• the family formed when a couple’s first child is born

• endogamy

• the practice of marrying within one's own group

• exogamy

• the practice of marrying outside of one’s group

• incest taboo

• the rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives

• bilineal system

• Mothers and fathers side of descent

• patrilineal system

• Males of authority

• matrilineal system

• a system of reckoning descent that counts only the mother’s side

• patriarchal society

• Follow fathers side of descent

• matriarchy

• Women dominate men

• egalitarian system

• Authority more or less equally divided between people

• How can parents find the time to spend more time with their children today than in the last 40 years?

• Less time visiting friends and relatives

• homogamy

• The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another.

• how many children do most Americans want?

• 0, 1, or 2.

• what time period did Americans have a dramatic shift in their ideal family size?

• 1970s, women are entering the work force, and increasing divorce rates.

• children under the age of 18 living with both parents is

decreasing

• blended family

• Family whose members were once part of other families

• Americans are _____ for their first time at older ages than at any other time in US history

marrying more

• sandwich generation

• people who are caring both for their children and their elderly parents

• children adjust better to divorce if

they have a 2nd adult to count on for support

• 6th Need of society

• Economic production

5th need of society

• Socialization of children

4th need of society

• Care of the sick and aged

3rd need of society

• Recreation

2nd need of society

• Sexual control

1st need of society

• Reproduction