SOCL 4401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Super Bowl, Infant Mortality, Pierre Bourdieu
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Institutions entail distinct social practices (intimacy, support, socialization) Institutions have social positions characterized by norms that both facilitate and constrain behavior of its members. Institutions are important to their members, and their rules and expectations become internalized as important identities and part of selves. The family in sociological theory: broad perspectives, consensus vs conflict, contemporary theories, feminism: seeks to understand and ultimately reduce inequality between men and women. He had a really biased study: example: a study done in 2012 the scholar was interviewed by courts as an (cid:498)expert witness(cid:499) as someone against same sex marriage. But later on, everything in his study was: it was invalidated because he asked people, (cid:499)until you were (cid:883)8 did you live in the house with your parents married? (cid:499) Monogamy: the marriage of one person to one other person. Polygamy: a marriage in which one person has several spouses. Matrilineal: a family system where wealth and power are transmitted from mothers to daughters.
