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Parenting
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Extra Credit Power Point (or Prezi.com) Option:
Sociologists to Know Extra Credit
5 minutes
Select a sociologist (sign up in class)
4 points possible
Samples and details on website
Due April 8th Tues/Thurs class, Due April 14th Mon/Wed class
About Research Paper
Due April 10th TTH
15 points
2 ½ - 3 pages typed
Use scoring RUBRIC, this is how I grade the paper
Use the OUTLINES on the website
Weak Example
Frustration-aggression hypothesis states that ethnic prejudice
develop from people’s need to cope with the frustration in their
daily lives (class notes). The Frustration-aggression hypothesis is
illustrated by the Japanese Americans being sent to internment
camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan during World War
II.
Problem 1-definiton not in your own words or
with quotation marks around it
Problem 2- no researched details about the
example
Strong Example
Frustration-aggression hypothesis states that ethnic prejudice starts from people
needing find a group to blame for the frustration they feel (class notes). The
Frustration-aggression hypothesis is illustrated by the Japanese Americans being
sent to internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan during
World War II. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor many people in our country
developed an instant prejudice against the Japanese-American citizens living in
United States. The American government assumed that the Japanese-Americans
were spies and none of them could be trusted, so they confined the JapaneseAmericans to internment camps under Executive Order 9066 (Siasoco and Shmuel,
2011). The Japanese- Americans faced prejudice and discrimination in their
communities. The United States government ruled that denying JapaneseAmericans their constitutional rights was necessary to protect America from
espionage. Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their communities,
families, homes, businesses, and properties (Roberts, 2008) .
Choice A: Norms.
Describe norms, mores, and folkways as defined in your text.
Research and provide three examples of norms that were
once mores in our society, but over time have become folkways (or
the other way around).
Provide an analysis of why you think this change occurred.
Choice B: Subcultures.
Describe sub-cultures or counter cultures.
Research and provide three examples of sub-cultures or counter
cultures in American society.
Why do they fit the definition of a sub-culture or counter-culture?
What are some of the norms and values of each?
Choice C: Race
100 years ago, sociologist W.E.B Du Bois said “The problem of the
20th century is the problem of the color line.”
What is racism?
Why is W.E.B Du Bois an important sociologist?
Research and describe two modern day (recent) events related to
racism.
Choice D: Prejudice:
Describe three of the four sociological approaches to explaining
prejudice (Cultural Transmission, Group Identification Theory,
Personality Theories, Frustration-aggression hypothesis)
Research and provide a real-life example of each (from history,
news, or one from personal experience, be specific and detailed).
Which of these theories do you feel best explains discriminatory
behaviors, why?
Choice E: Illegal Immigration
Research and analyze illegal immigration through each of the
sociological perspectives.
Conflict theory, Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism
Papers that earn 15/15:
1. Followed the scoring rubric provided on the website and discussed
in class
2. Answered the question with specific RESEACHED detailed
examples (from studies, history, news, world events)
3. Did not have errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation
4. Demonstrated a strong understanding of the concept
TIP: Write it as if it is for someone other than your sociology
teacher
5. Introduction had a strong, clear thesis previewing the 3 examples
Finding your significant other
4 factors sociologists are interested in
1. Propinquity (spatial nearness)
2. Homogamy:
tendency to chose a mate
who is similar to you
3. Heterogamy:
choosing a mate that is
different than you
Factors: hobbies, education, personality traits, spending habits,
age, political beliefs, etc.
4. Endogamy:
choosing a mate of the
same racial, ethnic, or
religious background
5. Exogamy:
choosing a mate
outside of your race,
ethnicity, religion
Defining Family
• Social institution found in every human society
• Two or more people, who consider themselves
related by blood, marriage, or adoption
Defining Family
• Nuclear family:
Parents and their
children
• Extended family:
parents, children,
other kin
What changes do you think have
occurred in the structure of families in
the United States since the 1950’s?
Has divorce increased, decreased,
or stayed the same since the
1980’s?
Number of divorces per 1,000 married women, age 15 and older
Source: The National Marriage Project, State of Our Unions, 2010.
Source: The National Marriage Project, State of Our Unions, 2010.
Pros and Cons of
Changes in Family Structure
Answer questions in groups of 1-3
Changes in structures of U.S. families:
1. Delayed childbearing
•Today 1 in 5 women are
having their first baby after
age 35
What are positive and
negative aspects of this
change?
Changes in U.S. family structures
2. Not having children
14% of U.S. married couples
never have children. Why?
•Expenses
•Career focus
•Unstable relationships
•Inability to have children
Changes in U.S. family structures
3. Increased employment of married mothers
59% of married U.S. couples
depend on two incomes
About one in five children is cared
for in day care centers. What are
positive and negative aspects of this
change?
Nannies have become popular
among upper-middle class parents.
What are positive and negative
aspects of this change?
Cosby Show
Changes in U.S. family structures
4. Increase in the number of
children being raised by
grandparents
6.5 million children o are being raised by grandparents or other
relatives
(U.S. Census Bureau)
What are positive and negative aspects of this change?
Changes in U.S. family structures
5. Increased divorce and blended families
Modern Family
Changes in U.S. family structures
6. Increased single-parent families
One on One
(Single dad and
teenage daughter)
Changes in U.S. family structures
7. Older age at 1st marriage
Friends
Sex and The City
Changes in structures of U.S. families:
Older age at 1st marriage
U.S. men and women are staying single longer
1970 average age at marriage
2010 average age at
marriage
Men: 23
Men : 28
Women: 21
Women: 26
Changes in U.S. family structures
8. Increased interracial families
The Willis Family from the
TV Show
The Jeffersons
Changes in U.S. family structures
9. Increased cohabitation-couple living
together that is not married
Grey’s Anatomy
Most unmarried partners: California, Alaska
Least unmarried partners: Utah at 4% and Alabama 5%
Changes in U.S. family structures
10. Less people getting married. Why?
1.Marriage must now compete with
school
career
living with a partner
having children outside of marriage
self-fulfillment
2. Less of a need to marry
3. Time and money - children
4. Fearful of commitments and constraints
Other changes U.S. family structure
• Increased births to unmarried women
• Increase in families with same-sex parents
• Increase in families with adopted children
Has teenage pregnancy increased,
decreased, or stayed the same
since 1990’s?
Teenage pregnancy has decreased
Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/hestats.htm
Parenting
Punishment = penalty for misbehavior
Discipline= method of teaching a child right from wrong
View SuperNanny Clip
Parenting: Discipline Techniques
1. Be a positive role model.
2. Set rules and consequences.
3. Encourage and reward good behavior.
4. Create charts.
5. Give time-outs.
6. Spanking
Which of these techniques
do you think are effective?
Which do you think are
ineffective?
Parenting
Amy Chua’s article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”
Underline 3 points that you agree or disagree with
Underline any parenting techniques that you experienced or use as a parent
1. What did you underline and why
2. Do you agree with the author’s parenting style? Why or why not?
3. What parenting techniques do you think are best?
Chua family
From Ms. Chua's
album: 'Mean me with
Lulu in hotel room...
with score taped to
TV!'
Structural Functionalist Perspective
Family is the back bone of society
– Replenishes population
– Socializes children
– Provides emotional and
physical care
Conflict Perspective
Focuses on power distribution in marriages
• Why do women take husbands last name?
• Why do children take father’s last name?
Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Look at social meanings of
divorce, single parenthood, and cohabitation
• “Visitation rights”
• “Single mom”
• “Living in sin”
Coming up
Religion and Education Read Ch 12: 284-287, 297-299, and
article on class website Misconceptions About Islam
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Extra Credit
Important Sociologists
• 5 minute Power Point Presentation
• Select a sociologist. Describe the following: brief background of their life,
2 major contributions to sociology, how is their work relevant today?
• 4 points possible
• Present next week
• Choose the sociologist in class today by signing up
View sample on website
Silent Dialogue Partner Activity
Purpose of the activity:
1. Develop critical thinking skills (there is no right or wrong answer,
no right or wrong question to pose). The goal is to ask your partner a
question that will invite them to look at their own thoughts in a
deeper manner
2. Allow shy/quiet students share their thoughts
3. Allow students to be the ones asking the questions instead of the
teacher
4. Allow students to get feedback from peers instead of the teacher
5. Allow the teacher to assess the background knowledge students
have on the topic (what do you already know about changes in family
structure?)
What changes do you think have occurred in the structure of families
in the United States since the 1950’s?
Partner activity
1. Answer the question above. Write NEATLY
Example: “One way I think families have changed since the 1950’s is ____”
2. When you hear the buzzer, pass your paper to your partner
3. Read their statement and write an OPEN-ENDED thought
provoking question for your partner that requires them to think
about the topic more deeply or look at it in a different way
4. When you hear the buzzer, switch papers and respond to you
partner’s question thoughtfully.
5. When you hear the buzzer switch papers and read the response
Write your names on both papers, turn into red folder at the end of class for your
participation points for today
Defining Family
• Family of orientation is the family in which a person
grows up (your parents and siblings)
• Family of procreation is the family formed when a
couple’s first child is born (your partner and
children).