Vocabulary

Week1

·        cenogamy (group marriage)

·        serial monogamy 

·        polygamy 

·        social structure

·        norms

·        status 

·        socialization

·        myth

·        patrilineal

·        matrilineal 

·        institution

·        marriage

·        monogamy 

·        polygyny 

·        polyandry 

·        family 

·        family of orientation

·        family of procreation

·        nuclear family

·        extended (multigenerational) family

·        modified extended family

·        patriarchal family 

·        role 

·        kinship 

·        households 

·        sociological imagination 

·        institutional racism

 

·        hypothesis 

·        reliability 

·        interview 

·        ethnography 

·        developmental family life cycle theory

·        symbolic interactionsim

·        structural functionalism

·        social-exchange theory

·        instrumental traits

·        sexism 

·        theory 

·        scientific research

·        empirical evidence 

·        variables 

·        scientific method 

·        validity 

·        survey 

·        questionnaire 

·        Hawthorne effect

·        case study

·        qualitative methods

·        ideology 

·        theory model 

·        manifest function

·        latent function

·        functional 

·        dysfunctional 

·        conflict theory

·        symbols 

·        social construction of reality

·        social constructionism

·        expressive traits

 
Week2

achieved status

·        master (key) status 

·        ascribed status 

·        transsexuals 

·        gender role stereotypes 

·        sex 

·        enculturated-lens theory 

·        gender 

·        psychoanalytic/identification

·        social-learning

·        social-learning

·        modeling 

·        cognitive-development

·        agents of socialization

·        content analysis

·        self-esteem

·        gender identity

·        intersexuality 

·        gender role socialization 

·        romantic love 

·        love map

·        eros 

·        ludus 

·        storge 

·        mania 

·        pragma 

·        agape 

·        infatuation 

·        liking 

·        wheel theory of love

·        limerence theory

·        androgynous 

·        trust 

·        jealousy 

·        envy 

 

Week3

·        dating 

·        mate selection

·        sex ratio

·        marriage market 

·        dowry 

·        homogamy 

·        marriage squeeze

·        hypogamy 

·        propinquity 

·        acquaintance rape

·        courtship 

·        getting together

·        going steady

·        anticipatory socialization

·        cruising 

·        pool of eligibles

·        exogamy 

·        endogamy

·        hypergamy 

·        marriage gradient

·        dating violence

·        rape 

·        date rape

 

 

 Week4

·        significant others

·        homophobia 

·        homosexuality 

·        erogenous zone

·        masturbation 

·        pleasuring 

·        cunnilingus 

·        menopause 

·        sexual dysfunction

·        safe sex 

·        human sexuality

·        sexual double standard 

·        sexual scripts

·        generalized others

·        bisexuality 

·        orgasm 

·        ejaculation 

·        autoeroticism 

 

Week5

·        push/pull factors

·        common-law marriage

·        palimony 

·        domestic partnership

·        commune 

·        group marriage

·        principle of legitimacy

·        sacrament 

·        legal marriage

·        bigamy 

·        adultery 

·        affinal relatives

·        coverture 

·        personal marriage contract

·        prenuptial agreement

·        heterogamous marriage

·        social marriage

·        fornication 

·        conjugal rights

·        marital adjustment

 

 

 Week6

·        fertility rate

·        pronatalist attitude

·        abortion

·        artificial insemination

·        embryo transplant

·        amniocentesis 

·        congenital 

·        morbidity 

·        fetal alcohol syndrome

·        postnatal depression 

·        fertility 

·        total fertility rate

·        antinatalist forces

·        contraception 

·        infertility 

·        in vitro fertilization

·        surrogacy 

·        conception 

·        zygote 

·        ovulation 

·        ultrasound 

·        sonogram 

·        mortality 

·        embropathy 

·        couvade 

·        motherhood mystique

 
Week7

·        labor force participation rate

·        commuter marriage

·        role overload

·        role conflict

·        occupational distribution

·        the feminization of poverty

·        Aid to Dependant Children

·        job sharing

·        flextime 

·        Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978

·        sexual harassment 

·        pay equity

·        working poor

·        underemployment 

·        Family and Medical Leave Act

 

 Week8

·        infanticide 

·        rape syndrome

·        woman battering

·        sexual assault

·        battered-woman syndrome

·        victim blaming

·        battered-child syndrome

·        incest 

·        elder abuse

·        parricide 

·        transmission of victimization

 
Week9

·        alimony 

·        no-fault divorce

·        divorce rate

·        stations of divorce

·        emotional divorce 

·        psychic divorce

·        sole custody

·        conciliation counseling

·        desertion

·        annulment 

·        split custody

·        legal divorce

·        economic divorce

·        coparental divorce

·        community divorce 

·        joint custody

·        divorce counseling

·        collaborative law

·        divorce mediation

·        separation 

remarried family

·        emotional remarriage

·        psychic remarriage

·        community remarriage

·        parental marriage

·        economic remarriage

·        legal remarriage

·        overlapping households

 

 

 Week10

·        sandwich generation

·        ageism 

·        social gerontology

·        age norms

·        functional age

·        global interdependence

·        disability 

·        drug  

·        closed 

·        open 

·        fictive kin

·        racism 

·        ethnic cleansing

·        terrorism 

·        refugees 

·        health 

·        drug use 

·        drug abuse

·        alcoholism 

·        xenophobia 

·        individual racism

·        symbolic racism

·        bereavement 

·        grief 

·        mourning 

·        disenfranchised

·        disenfranchised grief