SOCL 2505 Chapter : Sociology
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Utilitarian: personal achievement, self reliance, how to pursue personal dreams, want more practical things: expressive. It is getting harder and harder to determine who is family since there are so many different types of families now. Also more difficult to define kinship: created kinship, how do family sociologists know what they know, social scientific methodology. Objectivity: not have biased, to be neutral and to understand what you are studying from as though you knew nothing about it: it"s hard not to be biased because we all have a family. People viewed as rational actors (rational-choice) attempting to maximize their benefits and minimize their costs. Feminist theory: sociological theory that focuses on the domination of women by men: developed to better understand and transform the social inequalities women face. Gender is the central concept: we created it, it"s not real, we created gender roles. Breadwinner-homemaker model is not equally beneficial to women.
