SOC 10000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deindustrialization, Urban Renewal, Social Cost

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 10000
• Professor: Jared Wright

Document Summary

Nuclear family: a familial form consisting of a father, mother, and children. Extended family: networks that extend outside of the traditional nuclear family. Endogamy: marriage to someone within someone"s social group, education, religion, or nationality. Exogamy: marriage to someone within a different social group, this is legally possible but not always culturally acceptable. Miscegenation: interracial marriage, both politically and historically charged. Loving v. virginia: in the 1967 supreme court cases that ended anti- miscegenation laws that said interracial couples could not marry. Monogamy: practice of being in a relationship with one person at a time. Polygamy: a system of marriage that allows people to have more than one spouse at a time. Families today: multiple generations live together, families can consist of step- siblings, and half-sibling, many single parents, individual couples chose not to get married or have children. 8% of all u. s households are occupied couples are cohabitating. 40% of women in the u. s will be married with children.