Sociology 464 (70-Main Campus, 75-AV) Family and Stress (CRNs 80474 and 80475) California State University Bakersfield Black Board Course, Fall Quarter 2013 Instructor: Dahna L. Rasmussen, MA Office: DDH CC205 Online Office Hours: Monday 5:30 PM -7:30 PM Main Campus Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Also available via appointment Email: All course related emails should be sent via Blackboard. Please note this syllabus is a general
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Sociological perspectives Sociological perspectives is a perspective on human behaviour and its connection to society as a whole. It invites us to look for the connections between the behaviour of individual people and the structures of the society in which they live. The structures are functionalism, Marxism, Feminist, Interactionism, Collectivism, Postmodernism and New right. Functionalism Functionalism is a perspective created by Emile Durkheim. He believed society was made up of inter-connected
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sentence. Stephanie, the cousin of John that allegedly got raped testified against her cousin for rape at the age of nine but two years after that she recanted her testimony. She stated that she was influenced by her mother who was going through a divorce with her husband, Stephan Arena, Stephanie's father and the boys' uncle. Stephanie has kept up, for over 10 years, that her original testimony was in fact a lie. Now John Arena is a registered sex offender because he was pressured into falsely accusing
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horizontally, with aunts uncles and cousins. Single parent families, as the name implies, involve a single parent with dependent child or children. Reconstituted families, sometimes called step families, are as a result of the loss of a partner through divorce or death and subsequent remarriage. This type of family is usually nuclear with children from one or both remarrying parents (Macionis and Plummer 2005). What is Leech referring to when he says narrow privacy and tawdry secrets? The familiar phrase
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superior ability to love. b. men's inability to communicate or express their true feelings. c. a societal definition of love as expression and emotion, qualities associated with women. d. the feminist movement. Lecture Notes: Week 2 What is sociology? * Explains and analyzes important matters in our personal lives, our communities, and world. * Religion, love, Econ, business, poverty, war, peace, etc. * the ability to see and understand the connection between broad social forces
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examines the effect of broken homes on the learning performance/academic achievement in mathematics of Junior Secondary School students in Lagelu L.G.A. in Oyo state. According to the U.S census Bureau, half of all first marriages end in divorce, while 60% of divorcing couples have children. 36.3% of children live with their mothers. This study therefore sought to analyse the contribution of broken homes whether positively or negatively on the academic performance of the students
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Carlson, Stevens- Smith, & Dennison, 2005). The problems confronting families are more perplexing than they once were. In the United Stated about half of marriages remain intact. Every year over a million divorces take place, and for every 1,000 people there are 4.2 divorces. Many of the people who divorce remarry within 2 to 5 years. One-quarter of children, younger than 18, reside
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job in 15 years not because of ADHD. "Adult ADHD has now become the foremost self-diagnosed condition in my practice . I fear that the condition can allow an adult patient to find a biological cause that is not always reasonable, for job failures, divorce, poor motivation, lack of success, and chronic depression" (Shaffer 1994) (Thio, Calhoun, & Conyers 2010)
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Sociology CIA1 Making sense and construction of social change through the studies of Sanskritization,Westernization and Dominant caste Pooja Agarwal 1313240 IIPSENG INTRODUCTION There have been various changes in the social structure of India brought about by the British administration, its economic policies, educational system and introduction of modern means of communication had a far reaching effect on Indian society and economy. Though the Indian society which is based on the caste system
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paper will examine the social factors associated with deviant behavior among juveniles. It will explore the correlation, if any, between single parent homes and the rise in deviant behavior in juveniles. The two disciplines, Psychology and Sociology, will help evaluate the importance between the single parent homes and the effect it has on juvenile deviant behaviors. Evaluating the reasons for the rise in juvenile delinquency in our nation is complex but most alarming is the young ages of
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