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    • Insurance Company Drops Woman after Rape
      Lisa recently posted about a woman who was denied health insurance due to having a C-section in the past; the health care plan would cover her only if she agreed to be sterilized. Mackenzie I.-T. sent in this clip from Anderson Cooper 360 about a woman who was dropped by her insurance company after she was raped, due to her doctors putting her on antibiotics […]
    • deterrent effect of death penalty still a mystery
      The Houston Chronicle recenly reported on the efforts of social scientists to understand whether the death penalty deters potential murderers.  According to the article, research on the issue has historically produced mixed results: In 1967, sociologist Thorsten Sellin found no significant impact when he studied murder rates in adjacent states with differing […]
    • New York Marathon Winner: Not a ‘Real’ American?
      Questions about Meb Keflezighi's 'American' identity after winning the New York City Marathon is the latest example of anti-immigrant and anti-minority backlash among many White Americans.
    • New York Marathon Winner: Not a ‘Real’ American?
      Questions about Meb Keflezighi's 'American' identity after winning the New York City Marathon is the latest example of anti-immigrant and anti-minority backlash among many White Americans.
    • Outsourcing Art
      Peter Hessler, at the New Yorker, discusses the practice of outsourcing art to China. According to Hessler, Chinese people, mostly from the countryside, are trained to paint copies of photographs or paintings en masse and those paintings are sold to tourists elsewhere in the world. Painters pose in their workspace: Paintings to be sold as souvenirs somewhere […]
    • Guest Post: Oral Sex, Vaccines & Other Dangerous Pursuits
      Welcome back guest blogger, Adina Nack.  Adina is an associate professor of Sociology at California Lutheran University specializing in medical sociology, gender inequality and sexual health.  You can visit her online here. We are pleased to feature a post she wrote for us reflecting on recent FDA decisions and a video released by the Oral Cancer Foundation. […]
    • Toronto 2.0
      Notes from North of 49ºN Toronto Mayor David Miller recently unveiled the opening of city datasets on the OpenTO website, ushering in the city’s new era of Gov 2.0.  In less than an hour, the above map of the city’s wards  was generated from the shapefiles.  According to Now Magazine:: “Basically, OpenTO amounts to the city offering [...] […]
    • “The Killer Inside Me” Promo (NSFW! And Major Trigger Warning!)
      Cate M. emailed us about the promo for the movie “The Killer Inside Me,” saying, The level of violence is at NSFW levels and quite possibly one of the most ‘trigger warning’ vids I’ve ever seen used to promote a non-horror film. We get a lot of submissions about sexualized violence toward women, so I thought, “well, ok, we […]
    • What Sources of Sexual Knowledge Correlate with Actual Knowledge?
      The D.C. Council’s Committee on Health released a report after surveying D.C. high school students about sex education (discovered via Feministing).  One of their questions was about the source of sexual health information.  The pie chart below shows that students name, in order, their parents or guardians, health workers, teachers, friends, and boyfriends o […]
    • German Frat Sexes Up the Nursery
      Kay, a student at a University in Munich, sent along an invitation for a Corps Isaria fraternity, or or “Burschenschafts,” party. The cover for the invitation reads “Isarias Gute Kinderstube” which, she explains, “translates literally to good nursery and means something like being well raised, knowing how to behave.” When […]

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Learning Objectives – Chapter 14 and Chapter 15

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 26 April, 2009

Learning Objectives, Chapter 14 – Divorce & Remarriage

1.      How are divorce rates measured?

2.      How do divorce rates vary across cultures?

3.      How have divorce rates varied historically in the United States?

4.      What factors are associated with divorce?

5.      What are the dimensions of the divorce experience?

6.      What are the consequences of divorce for children?

Learning Objectives, Chapter 15 – Families and the Sociological Imagination

1.       How does the sociological imagination help us to understand families?

2.      How are family members, especially women and children, affected by economic disparities in the United States?

3.      How are societies and nations around the world interconnected?

4.      How are families both private relationships and public institutions?

5.      How do family policies reflect historical, cultural, political, and social factors?

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