Part A- Answer one question of your choice in a thoughtful paragraph. Remember to explain your reasoning and feel free to use quotes from the slides, me, or the book. BE DETAILED AND BASE YOUR ANSWER ON THE MATERIAL. Your answer AND a response to one of your classmates (you can certainly respond to a classmate that answered a different question) must be posted by 11:59pm of the due date. Follow the syllabus schedule. Note: to reply to a class mate, use the QUOTE feature on their message.
1. What is resource theory? How is resource theory related to who does the housework?
2. Briefly discuss the three-stage process of mate selection described in the text. Do you agree?
3. Discuss at least four of the six reasons couples choose to cohabitate.
4. Based on Mate Selection Around the World by Bron B. Ingoldsby, describe the differences between sororate and levirate. In what type of societies might we find these marriage practices?
5. Based on The Mommy Myth by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels, what is "the new momism"? Explain.
6. Based on Diversity Among Same-Sex Couples and Their Children by Gary Gates, what did you learn about gay and lesbian families? How does the data differ from what we witness in the media?
Part B- Answer one question of your choice in a thoughtful paragraph. Remember to explain your reasoning and feel free to use quotes from the slides, me, or the book. BE DETAILED AND BASE YOUR ANSWER ON THE MATERIAL. Your answer AND a response to one of your classmates (you can certainly respond to a classmate that answered a different question) must be posted by 11:59pm of the due date. Follow the syllabus schedule. Note: to reply to a class mate, use the QUOTE feature on their message.
1. Compare and contrast mechanical and organic solidarity.
2. What are two examples of discrepancies between real and ideal culture in American culture (either values or behaviors)? Describe one instance in your personal life where you found a conflict between real and ideal culture in America.
3. Name a common cultural practice in the United States. How might someone from another culture respond to that practice in a culturally relative manner? How might someone respond in an ethnocentric manner?
4. List and discuss the three types of norms discussed in the book. Provide an example of each.
5. (Based on Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner) What is the latipso in Nacirema culture? What does it signify? In describing what goes on in the latipso, what is Miner's principal message about American life?