Download Social and Cultural Dynamics: Family, Love, Religion, and Population - Prof. Michael D. Hu and more Study notes Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! family romantic love homogamy family life course homosexuality religion mana animism church denomination sect cult protestant ethic traditionally defined as a social group whose members are related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption and who live together, cooperate economically, and care for the young the strong physical and emotional attraction between a man and a woman the tendency of like to marry like changes and realignments related to the altered expectations and requirements imposed on a husband and a wife as children are born and grow up a preference for an individual of the same sex as a sexual partner those socially shared and organized ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that concern ultimate meanings and assume the existence of the supernatural or “beyond” and that are centered in beliefs and practices related to sacred things the notion that there is in nature a diffuse, impersonal, supernatural force operating for good or evil a belief in spirits or otherworldly beings a religious organization that considers itself uniquely legitimate and enjoys a positive relationship with the dominant society a religious organization that accepts the legitimacy of other religions a religious organization that stands apart from the dominant society but is rooted in established religious tradition a religious movement that represents a new and independent religious tradition the Calvinist ethos that embodied the spirit of capitalism secularization education credentialism sick role health disease demography crude birth rate fertility rate age specific rate fecundity crude death rate infant mortality rate the notion that profane (nonreligious) considerations gain ascendancy over sacred (religious) considerations in the course of social evolution the transmission of particular attitudes, knowledge, and skills to the members of a society through formal, systematic training the requirement that a worker have a degree that does not provide skills needed for the performance of a job a set of cultural expectations that define what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior for people with a disease or health problem a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity a condition in which an organism does not function properly because of biological causes the science dealing with the size, distribution, composition, and changes in population the number of live births per 1,000 members of a population in a given year the annual number of live births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 the number of an event per 1,000 people of the given age and sex the potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could the number of deaths per 1,000 members of a population in a given year the number of deaths among infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births
