22 Feb 2008 - 08:05:35 pm
Sociology Students
Identify the basic societal needs that the institution of the family satisfies.
Test over Chapter 12 on Monday, April 28th
Topics this week:
The Family in Cross-cultural Perspective
The American Family
Syndication
-Scarce resources and social rewards are distributed
-status is determined by the status of his/her parents
-elaborate norms for governing interaction between the castes
-caste systems have forbidden the practice of exogamy
Class
-linking means that individuals have some control over their place in stratification
-acording to the followers of Marx, the owners of the means of production
-who made his or her money through illegal means my be shunned by the established upper class