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Sexuality
Workplace
Marriage
Safety
Sexuality and Laws
Many states do not prohibit employment
discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation and gender identity.
ENDA
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)
Proposed bill to make it illegal nationally
has not been approved
Marriage recognition
Provides same sex couples:
-employment based health benefits
-right to sue for wrongful death
-ability to make medical decisions
14 states in the U.S. that recognize same-sex marriage (Oct 2013)
Legal same-sex
marriage:
1 Netherlands
2 Belgium
3 Canada
4 Spain
5 Norway
6 Sweden
7 South Africa
Harassment in Schools
Survey of LGBT students ages 13–20
-64% feeling unsafe, verbally harassed
-38% physical harassment
2010
Harassment in Schools
Survey of LGBT students ages 13–20, because of their
sexual orientation:
-64% reported feeling unsafe, verbally harassed in school
-38% physical harassment
Hate Crimes
Murder of :
Matthew Shepard college student, Wyoming
1998
Hate crimes =
Harsher punishments for crimes motivated by
bias (race, religion)
2009: federal protection for gay individuals
under hate-crime laws
Family
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Relationships
Family Structure
Parenting
3 theories
Extra Credit Options
Halloween and Race
Halloween and Gender
Immigration Solutions
Many more
Extra Credit Power Point Option:
Sociologists to Know Extra Credit
5 minute Power Point Presentation (or Prezi.com)
Select a sociologist (sign up in class)
4 points possible
Samples and details on website
Finding your significant other
4 factors sociologists are interested in
1. Propinquity (spatial nearness)
2. Homogamy:
tendency to chose a mate
who is similar to you
3. Heterogamy:
choosing a mate that is
different than you
Factors: hobbies, education, personality traits spending habits,
age, political beliefs, etc.
4. Endogamy:
choosing a mate of the
same racial, ethnic, or
religious background
5. Exogamy:
choosing a mate
outside of your race,
ethnicity, religion
Defining Family
• Social institution found in every human society
• Two or more people, who consider themselves
related by blood, marriage, or adoption
Defining Family
• Nuclear family:
Parents and their
children
• Extended family:
parents, children,
other kin
What changes do you think have
occurred in the structure of families in
the United States since the 1950’s?
Has divorce increased, decreased,
or stayed the same since the
1980’s?
Number of divorces per 1,000 married women, age 15 and older
Source: The National Marriage Project, State of Our Unions, 2010.
Source: The National Marriage Project, State of Our Unions, 2010.
Pros and Cons of
Changes in Family Structure
Answer questions in groups of 1-3
Changes in structures of U.S. families:
1. Delayed childbearing
•Today 1 in 5 women are
having their first baby after
age 35
What are positive and
negative aspects of this
change?
Changes in U.S. family structures
2. Not having children
14% of U.S. married couples
never have children. Why?
•Expenses
•Career focus
•Unstable relationships
•Inability to have children
Changes in U.S. family structures
3. Increased employment of married mothers
59% of married U.S. couples
depend on two incomes
About one in five children is cared
for in day care centers. What are
positive and negative aspects of this
change?
Nannies have become popular
among upper-middle class parents.
What are positive and negative
aspects of this change?
Cosby Show
Changes in U.S. family structures
4. Increase in the number of
children being raised by
grandparents
6.5 million children o are being raised by grandparents or other
relatives
(U.S. Census Bureau)
What are positive and negative aspects of this change?
Changes in U.S. family structures
5. Increased divorce and blended families
Modern Family
Changes in U.S. family structures
6. Increased single-parent families
One on One
(Single dad and
teenage daughter)
Changes in U.S. family structures
7. Older age at 1st marriage
Friends
Sex and The City
Changes in structures of U.S. families:
Older age at 1st marriage
U.S. men and women are staying single longer
1970 average age at marriage
2006 average age at
marriage
Men: 23
Men : 28
Women: 21
Women: 26
Changes in U.S. family structures
8. Increased interracial families
The Willis Family from the
TV Show
The Jeffersons
Changes in U.S. family structures
9. Increased cohabitation-couple living
together that is not married
Grey’s Anatomy
Most unmarried partners: California, Alaska
Least unmarried partners: Utah at 4% and Alabama 5%
Changes in U.S. family structures
10. Less people getting married. Why?
1.Marriage must now compete with
school
career
living with a partner
having children outside of marriage
self-fulfillment
2. Less of a need to marry
3. Time and money - children
4. Fearful of commitments and constraints.
Other changes U.S. family structure
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Increased births to unmarried women
Fewer children with married parents
Increase in families with same-sex parents
Increase in families with adopted children
Has teenage pregnancy increased,
decreased, or stayed the same
since 1990’s?
Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/hestats.htm
Parenting
Amy Chua’s article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”
Underline 3 points that you agree or disagree with
Underline any parenting techniques that you experienced or use as a parent
1. What did you underline and why
2. Do you agree with the author’s parenting style? Why or why not?
3. What parenting techniques do you think are best?
Chua family
From Ms. Chua's
album: 'Mean me with
Lulu in hotel room...
with score taped to
TV!'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQpbzQ6gzs
Parenting
Punishment = penalty for misbehavior
Discipline= method of teaching a child right from wrong
View SuperNanny Clip
Parenting
Effective Discipline Techniques: Alternatives to Spanking
1. Be a positive role model.
2. Set rules and consequences.
3. Encourage and reward good behavior.
4. Create charts.
5. Give time-outs.
Which of these techniques
do you think are effective?
Which do you think are
ineffective?
Structural Functionalist Perspective
Family is the back bone of society
– Replenishes population
– Socializes children
– Provides emotional and
physical care
– Traditional roles keep families
together
Conflict Perspective
Focuses on power distribution in marriages
• Traditional roles require “domestic slavery” of the wife- no
income or status
• Even today working women still do
more of the housework
• Why do women take husbands last name?
• Why do children take father’s last name?
Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Look at social meanings of
divorce, single parenthood, and cohabitation
• “Visitation rights”
• “Single mom”
• “Living in sin”
About Paper #1 Due Nov 7th
15 points
2 ½ - 3 pages typed
Use scoring RUBRIC, this is how I grade the paper
Use the OUTLINES on the website
Papers that earn 15/15:
1. Followed the scoring rubric provided on the website and discussed
in class
2. Answered the question with specific RESEACHED detailed
examples (from studies, history, news, world events)
3. Did not have errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation
4. Demonstrated a strong understanding of the concept
5. Introduction had a strong, clear thesis previewing the 3 examples
From the paper rubric
Inclusion of
Personal
Analysis &
Sociological
Concepts
The author has taken the ideas and made them "his/her
own" by connecting them to personal experiences
and/or knowledge of world events.
All examples are specific and detailed.
Examples come from personal experience, news, or
history.
Examples are not general/hypothetical or the same as
those presented in class or in the text.
Weak body paragraph
Strong body paragraph. Example with specific details.
Robert Park refers to
the minority feeling
bonded to the culture
they came from. My
parents both apply to
this because they still
follow their cultural
ways.
Robert Park describes the assimilation experience for
three generations of immigrants. Park states that first
generation immigrants often hold on to many aspects of
their culture (class notes). This is true for my parents in
many ways. For example, it is a tradition in Japan for
people to take off their shoes before entering the home.
Even though we have lived in the United States since I
was four years old, my parents have always taught my
sisters and I to take our shoes off as soon as we come
home. We have a little bench right in our entry way just
for this purpose. Anyone who visits our home must also
take off their shoes. We do the same when visiting other
Japanese families as well.
Next class
Read the paper topic choices before next week
Family Continued
Silent Dialogue Partner Activity
Purpose of the activity:
1. Develop critical thinking skills (there is no right or wrong answer,
no right or wrong question to pose). The goal is to ask your partner a
question that will invite them to look at their own thoughts in a
deeper manner
2. Allow shy/quiet students share their thoughts
3. Allow students to be the ones asking the questions instead of the
teacher
4. Allow students to get feedback from peers instead of the teacher
5. Allow the teacher to assess the background knowledge students
have on the topic (what do you already know about changes in family
structure?)
What changes do you think have occurred in the structure of families
in the United States since the 1950’s?
Partner activity
1. Answer the question above. Write NEATLY
Example: “One way I think families have changed since the 1950’s is ____”
2. When you hear the buzzer, pass your paper to your partner
3. Read their statement and write an OPEN-ENDED thought
provoking question for your partner that requires them to think
about the topic more deeply or look at it in a different way
4. When you hear the buzzer, switch papers and respond to you
partner’s question thoughtfully.
5. When you hear the buzzer switch papers and read the response
Write your names on both papers, turn into red folder at the end of class for your
participation points for today
Defining Family
• Family of orientation is the family in which a person
grows up (your parents and siblings)
• Family of procreation is the family formed when a
couple’s first child is born (your partner and
children).
Extra Credit
Important Sociologists
• 5 minute Power Point Presentation
• Select a sociologist. Describe the following: brief background of their life,
2 major contributions to sociology, how is their work relevant today?
• 4 points possible
• Present next week
• Choose the sociologist in class today by signing up
View sample on website