SOCIOL 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nuclear Family, Social Stratification, Resource Mobilization
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Kinship: network of people who are related by marriage, birth, or adoption. Family: group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who live together and share economic resources. Marriage: set of norms that specify the ways in which family structure should be organized. Extended family: nuclear family and grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Second shift: responsibilities of childcare and housework borne disproportionately by women. Evaluation research: seeks to understand the effects of a program, policy, or effort to affect a social pattern. Social intervention: action taken to produce a specific intended result. Active sociology: work towards a specific outcome in a given context. Positionality: an individuals world view, position a researcher chooses to adopt. Reflexivity: researchers should acknowledge and disclose themselves in research. Debt: everything one owes including mortgages, loans, bills, etc. Social mobility: movement of individuals or groups between different social positions. Intergenerational mobility: movement up/down a social stratification hierarchy from one generation to another.
