SOCL 2505 : Exam 1 Notes
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Increased numbers of elderly people have lost their spouse. Increase in number of same-sex couples who, until recently, were not counted as being married: cohabitation, like you"re married, but not actually married, trends in cohabitation. In the united states today more than half (63%) of mothers with young children work outside the home, compared to about one in three in the. 1970"s: factors resulting in instability of couple and family relationships. Native population: ai/an tribes have their own form of governance, culture, and history. Kinship: relatedness of certain individuals within a group, describes the norms that govern, marital forms. Ideas: theory: general principles composed of interrelated concepts, hypotheses: presumed relationships between variables, research study: designed to test one or more specific hypotheses, approaches to understand how individuals and families operate. Interactions: based on verbal and nonverbal communication: ex: knowing what someone means by the look on their face, explains how people learn about roles by communicating with each other.
