Final Terms Flashcards
(32 cards)
Love
passionate and companionate love
Homophily
principle by which similar people have more contact than dissimilar people
Endogamy
marriage or relationship with in a group
Social script
a common understood pattern of interaction that serves as a model of behavior in unfamiliar situations
Exogamy
marriage or relationship outside of a group
Marriage market
social space in which people search for potential marriage partners
Crude divorce rate
number of people divorced per thousand people
Refined divorce rate
number of married couples divorced per thousand married couples.
Divorce marriage ratio
1 divorce for every 1.8 marriages (US 2012)
Fertility
number of children born in a society or among a group
Total fertility rate
number of children born to the average woman in her lifetime
Infertility
no contraceptive use of 12 months without pregnancy
Puberty
biological development of sex characteristics and ability to reproduce
Adolescence
social construct, marked with rituals
Adultolescence
postponing of adult responsibilities
“Boomerang” kids
children that left the home, but had to return due to economic reasons
Market work
work done by employees to pay
Housework
work to maintain household
Care work
face-to-face work to enhance the capabilities of another
Guilt gap
The gaps faced by women when choosing whether or not to have children. If they are childless they are seen as cold, a working mother is neglectful or an uncommitted worker, and a homemaker in unproductive
Glass escalator
move more quickly into higher positions, unearned privilege
Glass ceiling
only moved so far up, an unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession
4 Types of care work
feeding work, housework, kin work, consumption work
Second shift
an additional share of care work, done in the home by women