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GENDER & AGE 100
• What is the difference between sex and
gender?
GENDER & AGE 100
• Sex: biological characteristics
• distinguish between male and female
• Gender: sociological characteristics
• Masculinity or femininity
GENDER & AGE 200
• True or False: The terms sex and gender are
interchangeable
GENDER & AGE 200
• FALSE! They are separate things!
GENDER & AGE 300
• Define Gender Stratification
GENDER & AGE 300
• Gender Stratification: Males’ and females’ unequal
access to property, power, and prestige
GENDER & AGE 400
• Explain why women are a minority group
even though they are not a numerical
minority?
GENDER & AGE 400
• Historically and globally we have patriarchal
societies
• Discrimination based on physical characteristics
• …and cultural values
GENDER & AGE 500
• What does it mean when we say that “age
is a social construct”?
GENDER & AGE 500
• We decide as a society how we perceive
age and what values and norms are
associated with age
EDUCATION & RELIGION 100
• Define Rituals
EDUCATION & RELIGION 100
• Ceremonies or repetitive practices
EDUCATION & RELIGION 200
• What is the definition of a cult?
EDUCATION & RELIGION 200
• A new religion with few followers, whose
teachings and practices are at odds with
the dominant religion or culture
EDUCATION & RELIGION 300
• What is a “self-fulfilling prophecy”?
EDUCATION & RELIGION 300
• Robert Merton – When the false assumption
of something becomes true only because it
was predicted
EDUCATION & RELIGION 400
• What does the term “Hidden Curriculum”
refer to?
EDUCATION & RELIGION 400
• The unwritten goals of schools including
teaching obedience to authority,
conformity to social norms, etc.
EDUCATION & RELIGION 500
• What are the 3 elements of religion? (from
your textbook!)
EDUCATION & RELIGION 500
1. Beliefs
2. Practices
3. Moral Community
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 100
• What is the term for a family that is just the
parents and kids?
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 100
• Nuclear Family
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 200
• Define Household
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 200
• Household: Consists of people who occupy
the same housing unit
• House or apartment
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 300
• Why is the term “family” difficult to define?
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 300
• There are many varieties of family and it
there is no universal definition
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 400
• What is the difference between endogamy
and exogamy?
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 400
• Endogamy: must marry within your group
• Exogamy: must marry outside your group
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 500
• What does childcare in the US look like when
a child is preschool aged?
MARRIAGE & FAMILY 500
• The child has been put into an organized
care facility
• Ie. Preschool, Montessori, etc.
MORE GENDER & AGE 100
• Explain the difference between life span
and life expectancy
MORE GENDER & AGE 100
• Life Span: the maximum length of life
possible
• Life Expectancy: the average age that a
person will be expected to live
MORE GENDER & AGE 200
• What is “The Graying of the Globe”?
MORE GENDER & AGE 200
MORE GENDER & AGE 300
• Define Agesim
MORE GENDER & AGE 300
• Ageism: prejudice, discrimination, and
hostility directed at individuals because of
their age
MORE GENDER & AGE 400
• What is “The Glass Ceiling?”
MORE GENDER & AGE 400
• The “Glass Ceiling” : the invisible barrier that
keeps women from advancing to the top
levels at work
MORE GENDER & AGE 500
• Explain the Disengagement Theory
MORE GENDER & AGE 500
• Disengagement Theory: when people leave
their positions in society
• Jobs (retirement)
• Institutions (community involvement)
 Usually around when their kids leave home
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 100
• What is demography?
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 100
• The study of the size, composition, growth
(or shrinkage), and distributions of
populations
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 200
• Define Urbanization
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 200
• Urbanization: the process by which n
increasing proportion of a population lives in
cities and has a growing influence on the
culture
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 300
• What does the term gentrification mean?
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 300
• When middle-class people move into
rundown area to rebuild and restore homes
• Displace the poor
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 400
• Define Human Ecology
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 400
• Robert Park
• The relationship between people and their
environment
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 500
• What is “zero population growth?
POPULATION & URBANIZATION 500
• Women bearing only enough children to
reproduce the population
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 100
• What is a blended family?
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 100
• Families whose members were once part of
other families and we brought together
through marriage
• Stepparents
• Stepsiblings
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 200
• True or False: Romantic love is a universal
belief and reason to get married
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 200
• FALSE! It is highly values in the US but not as
much in some places
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 300
• Define homogamy
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 300
• Homogamy: The tendency to marry someone
who is similar to you
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 400
• Define these two terms:
• Sandwich Generation
• Not-so-empty-nesters
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 400
• The Sandwich Generation: people who find
themselves responsible for their children and
their aging parents
• Not-so-empty-nesters: parents whose kids
come home to live after leaving
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 500
• What does the typical White American
family look like?
MORE MARRIAGE & FAMILY 500
• There is no “typical” kind of family!
• For any race!