Soc of the family
Welcome to class we will try to keep this page up dated.
Last week of the Semester.
Read the first of many links called
changing family http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB8009/
After reading the first link reply to the questions in the session called "changing families"
Read the following links then after that find a session called "web readings" and respond to the questions there.
(You will find the links below in the useful links section of this page.)
# Working women http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1998/03/art2exc.htm
# Day Care http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1991/10/art2exc.htm
# 75 years of change http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1990/03/art1exc.htm
# internationalchanges http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1990/03/art6exc.htm
# Changing families and households http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modii/ii493007.html
# Past ozzie and Harriet http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/961107/walsh.shtml
# Historical Society of Pennsylvania http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=306
L to J for Soc of the Family
1. Extended Family – persons who you have a relationship with past your parents and siblings that have a kinship common tie.
2. Nuclear Family – mother father and siblings as a single unit
3. Moral -- Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character:
4. Gender types – display of typical male or female behavior
5. Emotions -- The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility
6. Thoughts – the act or process of thinking
7. Coping Methods – a persons way of dealing with or handling tough situations
8. Perceptions – recon ignition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based on chiefly memory or the neurological processes by which such recognition and interpretation are effected
9. Communication – relaying information from one person to others
10. Empathy – Putting your self in the situation of another and feeling the emotions of that person or persons
11. Sympathy – feeling for some one else in their time of trail
12. Conflict – a state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; clash
13. Roles – the different people we are at any stage of development i.e. child, young adult, or adult
14. Life-style – the way you live your life
15. Traditional marriages-- following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time without changing
16. Permanent Marriage – relationship of two people that last till death
17. Infidelity -- Lack of religious belief. Unfaithfulness to a sexual partner, especially a spouse.
18. Adolescents – being of the age 13 through 19; “teenage mothers”; “the teen years”
19. Children – son or daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree;
20. Young Adults – persons more than 19 and most often with out children
21. Mature Adults – fully considered and perfected; “mature plans”, grow old or older,
22. Aged adults – after the age 55 or so child have usually left home by this time ready to retire
23. Infatuation – an object of extravagant short-lived passion
24. Real love – desire of your heart that will have a cost, or value to you
25. Lust -- self-indulgent sexual desire; craving, appetite, or great desire for
26. Love – strong positive emotion of regard and affection;
27. Trust – trait of trusting; of believing in the honesty and reliability of others;
28. Faith – strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny;
29. Social class – people of the same social economic status;
30. Marriage Laws – laws set by states of what is acceptable in a marriage and who can marry
31. Divorce – legal separation of a married couple approved by states
32. Separation – when a couple that is married no longer live together
33. Annulment – an official or legal cancellation
34. Minimum standards -- he smallest amount or number allowed or possible (usual rather than special, especially when thought of as being correct or acceptable)
35. Standard of living-- the amount of wealth and comfort people have in a particular society
36. Conflicts -- an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles
37. Disagreements -- to not have the same opinion, idea, etc.; to not agree
38. Misunderstanding -- to think you have understood someone or something when you have not
39. Sarcasm -- the use of remarks which clearly mean the opposite of what they say, and which are made in order to hurt someone's feelings or to criticize something in an amusing way
40. Resolution -- to solve or end a problem or difficulty
41. Parenthood -- the state of being a parent; specifically: the position, function, or standing of a parent
42. Natural Childbirth -- a method of giving birth in which special preparation and breathing exercises are used to make the birth easier, instead of drugs
43. C-section --- a caesarean (section) (= operation in which a woman's womb is cut open to allow a baby to be born)
44. Outpatient births -- a person who goes to a hospital for treatment, but who does not stay any nights there (in this case to give birth)
45. Growth -- to increase in size or amount, or to become more advanced or developed:
46. Development – o (cause something to) grow or change into a more advanced, larger or stronger form
47. Fabric -- the structure or parts especially of a social unit or a building:
48. Style -- a way of doing something, especially one which is typical of a person, group of people, place or period
49. Quality -- how good or bad something is
50. Quality of life --the level of enjoyment, comfort and health in someone's life
51. Self-help -- the activity of providing what you need for yourself and others with similar experiences or difficulties without going to an official organization
52. Personalities -- the complex of characteristics that distinguishes an
individual or a nation or group; especially: the totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics
53. Temperaments -- characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response
54. Social development – how one grows in the area of getting along with other people in a society
55. Emotional development – the growth of ones emotional responses to different situations
56. Intellectual development – growth of mental abilities as one gets older
57. Crises -- a situation that has reached an extremely difficult or dangerous point; a time of great disagreement, uncertainty or suffering
58. Stress -- react worry caused by a difficult situation, or something which causes this condition
59. Goals -- an aim or purpose
60. Natural high – euphoric feeling because of emotions and not because of drugs or outward influences
61. Punishment -- when someone is punished- to cause someone who has done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer, by hurting them, forcing them to pay money, sending them to prison, etc
62. Discipline -- Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training. Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training
63. Custody -- he legal right or duty to care for someone or something, especially a child after its parents have separated or died
64. Alimony -- a regular amount of money that a court of law orders a person, usually a man, to pay to their partner after a divorce (= marriage that has legally ended)
65. Child support -- moneies paid to a spouse or ex-spouse to be used for the needs of a child or children
66. Philosophy -- the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of reality and existence, the use and limits of knowledge and the principles that govern and influence moral judgment
67. Attitude -- a position assumed for a specific purpose
68. Case study -- an intensive analysis of an individual unit (as a person or community) stressing developmental factors in relation to environment
69. Anti-wage-discrimination -- equal pay for equal work regradless of sex, age, or race
70. Income – Money received from doing a job
71. Inflation -- an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods and services resulting in a continuing rise in the general price
72. Credit -- good name: ESTEEM; also: financial or commercial trustworthiness
73. Life-style -- the typical way of life of an individual, group, or culture
74. Self-image -- one's conception of oneself or of one's role
75. Sexuality -- the quality or state of being sexual
76. Puberty -- the condition of being or the period of becoming first capable of reproducing sexually marked by maturing of the genital organs, development of secondary sex characteristics, and in the human and in higher primates by the first occurrence of menstruation in the female
77. Monogamy -- 1 archaic: the practice of marrying only once during a lifetime 2: the state or custom of being married to one person at a time
78. Mental retardation -- intellectual ability that is equivalent to or less than an IQ of 70, is present from birth or infancy, and is manifested especially by abnormal development, by learning difficulties, and by problems in social adjustment
79. Motor Skills – control of arms and legs and other body functions that a individual has
80. Natural childbirth -- a system of managing childbirth in which the mother receives preparatory education in order to remain conscious during and assist in delivery with minimal or no use of drugs or anesthetics
81. Premature birth – birth of a child prior to 9 months
82. Self-help group – a gathering of people who share a common issue that they work on together for self improvement
83. Separation -- cessation of cohabitation between a married couple by mutual agreement or judicial decree
84. Blended family – Family unit made up pf parents and children of which they are not the biological parents of all children.
85. Embryo -- a vertebrate at any stage of development prior to birth or hatching b: an animal in the early stages of growth and differentiation that are characterized by cleavage, the laying down of fundamental tissues, and the formation of primitive organs and organ systems; especially: the developing human individual from the time of implantation to the end of the eighth week after conception
86. Fetus -- a developing human from usually three months after conception to birth
87. Infant -- a child in the first period of life
88. Adolescence -- a stage of development (as of a language or culture) prior to maturity
89. Old age – stage of development of persons who are retried
90. Defenses – skills on uses to defend themselves ether physically or mentally or emotionally
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