Ch 3 Vocabulary

Family

• The void in a couple’s life when the home is empty and they are no longer focusing their resources on rearing their children.

• two or more people living in the same household who are related by blood (birth), marriage, or adoption.

Family Life Cycle

• six basic stages that many families go through as a normal part of life. Includes the beginning, childbearing, parenting launching, mid-years, and aging stages

• two or more people living in the same household who are related by blood (birth), marriage, or adoption.

Empty Nest

• Based on the idea that cultural identities should not be ignored, but instead should be maintained and valued

• The void in a couple’s life when the home is empty and they are no longer focusing their resources on rearing their children.

Ethnic or Cultural Diversity

• Based on the idea that cultural identities should not be ignored, but instead should be maintained and valued

• In the United States, people of different backgrounds, languages, races, ethnicities, religions, and socioeconomic classes live in one society.

Multiculturalism

• Based on the idea that cultural identities should not be ignored, but instead should be maintained and valued

• the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

Stereotypes

• the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

• Preconceived generalizations about certain groups of people.

Ethnicity

• the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

• unfounded negative bias often based on stereotyping

Prejudice

• Preconceived generalizations about certain groups of people.

• unfounded negative bias often based on stereotyping

Social System

• The organization of individuals into a group based on characteristic patterned relationships.

• All living and nonliving things on earth not influenced by people.

Natural environment

• All the societal systems that regulate behavior and relationships between people.

• All living and nonliving things on earth not influenced by people.