UCSP 4th Quarter Exam Reviewer

• Family


  The basic unit of social organization, made up of a group of individuals linked together by marriage, blood relations, and adoption
• Nuclear family


  • A type of family made up of a group of people united by social ties, usually two adults and their socially recognized children
• Extended family


  • A type of family whose members go beyond the nuclear family made up of parents and their offspring
• Blended family


  • A type of family where parents have a child or children from previous marital relationships but all the members stay and congregate to form a new family unit
• Types of nuclear household


  • Married couple without children
  • Married couple with one or more unmarried children
  • Father with one or more unmarried children
  • Mother with one or more unmarried children
• Matrifocal residence


  • Transnational family formed when one or more of family members migrated but continue to keep tight relationships across borders
• Types of post-marital residence


  • Neolocal - determined by a rule that each spouse leaves their family of origin and jointly forms a new household
  • Ambilocal - a simpler rule that a wife must move to her husband's residence
  • Natalocal - specifies that each partner remains with their own families of residence after marriage
• Reciprocity


  The exchange of goods and services through a market
• Redistribution


  The theory, policy, or practice of lessening or reducing inequalities in income
• Transfer


  Entails a redistribution of income that is not matched by actual exchange of goods and services
• Fraternal function of trade union


  Achieve higher wages and better working conditions
• Holistic development


  • A function of education that achieves when it develops the physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the individual
• Preparing for the future


  • A function of education achieved when an individual was able to complete their education from kindergarten to tertiary
• Inculcation of civic and social responsibility


  • Education allows members of the next generation to understand their rights and duties as citizens in a democratic country
• Health


  The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
• Nervous attack


  A culture-bound syndrome meaning out-of-consciousness state
• Ethnomedicine


  Knowledgeable elders are the keepers and pass it down through oral traditions. People do not accept brain death.
• Western biomedicine


  Based on scientific understanding
• Hinduism


  • Developed out of Brahmanism, the world's oldest existing religion, an example of a polytheist religion
• Christianity


  • Based on the teachings of Jesus Christ
• Islam


  • Muslims worship by going to the Mosque every Friday at noon to pray
• Wealth


  Material possessions defined as valuable in particular societies
• Power


  The degree to which individuals or groups can impose their will on others with or without consent
• Dimensions of social standing (Max Weber)


  • Class - determined mainly by economic standing or wealth
  • Party - equivalent to political power
  • Status - social prestige and honor
• Innovation


  The social creation and institutionalization of new ideas, products, processes, or structures
• Conflict theory


  A theory on change that suggests societies progress as oppressed groups struggle to improve their lives
• Assimilation


  The process where some of the "majority community's" (dominant community) cultural aspects are absorbed in such a manner that the home cultural aspects get mitigated or lost
• Assimilation(Example)


  • English-only policies in some schools
• Social contradictions and tensions


  May include inter-ethnic conflicts, class struggle, armed conflict, terrorism, protests, gender issues, etc.
• Social contradictions and tensions


  • The struggle of LGBT community to be fully accepted in society
• Blended Family


  • Step Family
  • Reconstituted family
  • complex family