Week 6 quiz, Culture and Society
SOCS185N Chamberlain
nuclear family - correct answer ✔Mother, father and children living as a unit
From lesson: This type of family is generally associated with industrial, more
mobile societies.
Extended Family - correct answer ✔closely related people of several
generations. Example: Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and Grandparents. From
lesson: This type of Family is generally associated with agrarian, less mobile
societies.
Structual-Functionalist Perspectives on the Family - correct answer ✔This
perspective stresses how the family can be an oasis of stability for society and
fulfills the functions of socialization, companionship, affection, and the transfer
of social status.
Social-Conflict & Feminist Perspectives on the Family - correct answer
✔This perspective sees the family as mirroring the inequality in wealth, status,
influence that one can find within a society at large. They point out how the
family maintains and contributes to the pattern of structured social inequality
through issues such as divorce rates, sibling rivalry, inheritance, and
patriarchy. Point out that family has traditionally served to legitimize male
dominance.
Symbolic-Interactionalist Perspectives on the Family - correct answer ✔focus
on how people in relationships, like families or marriages, interact with one
another. For example, they might study how newly-married couples go about
constructing their marriage and defining their gender roles in terms of
domestic duties.
, Endogamy - correct answer ✔specifies that there is an expectation that
people are to be married to other members of their own group, be that racial,
ethnic, religious, or other.
Exogamy - correct answer ✔requires mate selection outside of an
individual's group. One norm governing exogamy is based on the taboo that
limits sexual partners to only beyond a group of culturally-specified relatives.
While the incest taboo is universal, and almost always includes immediate
family, how far removed a relative must be varies dramatically from one
society to the next.
homogamy - correct answer ✔marrying someone similar to one's self.
Example: Gay Marriage.
Cohabitation - correct answer ✔Living together without being married. Where
people maintain all, or most, of the trappings of marriage without making the
relationship legal or binding.
Structural-Functionalist Perspectives on Education - correct answer
✔Theorists that take the point of view argue that education accomplishes an
important function by communicating cultural values from one generation to
the next. This training allows each new class to learn about the dominant
cultural values and beliefs of their society. Learning about punctuality, being
prepared for work, good citizenship, sharing, and following rules is known as
the hidden curriculum. Latent functions also include delaying entry of youth
into the workforce, providing daycare for young children, vocational training,
and teaching courtship rituals, among others.
Social-Conflict Perspectives on Education - correct answer ✔Theorists who
view education from the ______ see our educational system as a method of
domination by cultural elites. These institutions promote the subordination of
minority groups, reinforcing the existing inequality in the social class hierarchy
and discouraging an alternative view of society. Schools reflect the social
SOCS185N Chamberlain
nuclear family - correct answer ✔Mother, father and children living as a unit
From lesson: This type of family is generally associated with industrial, more
mobile societies.
Extended Family - correct answer ✔closely related people of several
generations. Example: Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and Grandparents. From
lesson: This type of Family is generally associated with agrarian, less mobile
societies.
Structual-Functionalist Perspectives on the Family - correct answer ✔This
perspective stresses how the family can be an oasis of stability for society and
fulfills the functions of socialization, companionship, affection, and the transfer
of social status.
Social-Conflict & Feminist Perspectives on the Family - correct answer
✔This perspective sees the family as mirroring the inequality in wealth, status,
influence that one can find within a society at large. They point out how the
family maintains and contributes to the pattern of structured social inequality
through issues such as divorce rates, sibling rivalry, inheritance, and
patriarchy. Point out that family has traditionally served to legitimize male
dominance.
Symbolic-Interactionalist Perspectives on the Family - correct answer ✔focus
on how people in relationships, like families or marriages, interact with one
another. For example, they might study how newly-married couples go about
constructing their marriage and defining their gender roles in terms of
domestic duties.
, Endogamy - correct answer ✔specifies that there is an expectation that
people are to be married to other members of their own group, be that racial,
ethnic, religious, or other.
Exogamy - correct answer ✔requires mate selection outside of an
individual's group. One norm governing exogamy is based on the taboo that
limits sexual partners to only beyond a group of culturally-specified relatives.
While the incest taboo is universal, and almost always includes immediate
family, how far removed a relative must be varies dramatically from one
society to the next.
homogamy - correct answer ✔marrying someone similar to one's self.
Example: Gay Marriage.
Cohabitation - correct answer ✔Living together without being married. Where
people maintain all, or most, of the trappings of marriage without making the
relationship legal or binding.
Structural-Functionalist Perspectives on Education - correct answer
✔Theorists that take the point of view argue that education accomplishes an
important function by communicating cultural values from one generation to
the next. This training allows each new class to learn about the dominant
cultural values and beliefs of their society. Learning about punctuality, being
prepared for work, good citizenship, sharing, and following rules is known as
the hidden curriculum. Latent functions also include delaying entry of youth
into the workforce, providing daycare for young children, vocational training,
and teaching courtship rituals, among others.
Social-Conflict Perspectives on Education - correct answer ✔Theorists who
view education from the ______ see our educational system as a method of
domination by cultural elites. These institutions promote the subordination of
minority groups, reinforcing the existing inequality in the social class hierarchy
and discouraging an alternative view of society. Schools reflect the social
