sociology – Flashcards

In some societies, a man will marry a woman and her sisters. This is an example of _______.

A ___________ definition of the family is based on blood, meaning shared genetic heritage, and law, meaning social recognition and affirmation of the bond.

Anthropologist George Murdock sampled 565 societies and found that:

A married couple and their unmarried children living together constitute a(n) _______.

What is the difference between a family and a kin group?

A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in their lifetime but only one spouse at a time is called _______.

Cohabitation is the least common among which racial/ethnic group in the United States?

The incest taboo is an example of _______.

A _______ definition of the family focuses on what families do for society and for their members.

Which of the following is considered part of the substantive definition of the family?

In claiming the sick role, what are the sick obligated to do?

In 1974 members of the American Psychiatric Association voted to drop _______ from the standard manual on mental disorders.

Which of the following statements is an example of holistic medicine?

What is social epidemiology?

Policy makers were slow to respond to _______ in the U.S. because those in high-risk groups were comparatively powerless.

Mexican Americans may interpret their illnesses according to traditional practices and seek treatment in the form of curanderismo, which refers to _______.

Polio is a disease that was almost eradicated, but there are still new cases that appear due to the failure to immunize all children. Researchers keep close tabs on how many new cases of this disease occur each year in the hope that it will soon cease to exist. This enumeration is an example of _______.

What does culture-bound syndrome refer to?

An example of culture-bound syndrome is _______.

Prevalence refers to which of the following?

Which theory suggests that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships?

Which theory suggests that those elderly people who remain active and socially involved will have an improved quality of life?

_______ is the prejudice and discrimination based on a person's age.

Drawing on her work with 200 cancer patients, Kubler-Ross identified five stages dying. Which of the following is NOT one of those stages?

The _______ is the generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children.

_______ is the study of sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.

_______ begins when the person can no longer engage in basic, day-to-day activities such as self-care and housework.

A controlled experiment by the AARP confirmed that older people often face discrimination when ________?

The practice of _______ was introduced in England in the 1960s and is devoted to easing life's final transitions.

The _______ is where a retiree feels a sense of letdown or even depression as they cope with their new lives, which may include illness or poverty.

In 1798, _______ published the first edition of his book An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he argued that there are natural limits to the number of people the environment can sustain.

The _______ is considered the minimum number of children a woman would need to average in her lifetime to reproduce the population in the next generation.

Nations at this stage of demographic transition are characterized by high fertility rates and high death rates.

The _______ is considered a major indicator of the overall well-being of a population, because it is a reflection of available health care, economic opportunity, and inequality.

_______ occurs when a member of a population leaves that group.

_______ is the statistical study of population dynamics.

currently, there are approximately _______ people on Earth.

The total fertility rate must fall no lower than approximately 2.1, which is known as the _______.

Demographers analyze trends in _______, the number of children born in a given time period.

The single most common destination location, receiving the greatest net number of migrants from 1950 to 2010, was _______, with 43.4 million.