civil union

Examples of civil union in the following topics:

• The Nature of Marriage

  • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that creates kinship.
  • In some jurisdictions, such as Brazil, New Zealand, Uruguay, France and many U.S. states, civil unions are also open to opposite-sex couples.
  • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between spouses that creates kinship.
  • A civil union, also referred to as a civil partnership, is a legally recognized form of partnership similar to marriage.
  • In some jurisdictions, such as Brazil, New Zealand, Uruguay, France and the U.S. states of Hawaii and Illinois, civil unions are also open to opposite-sex couples.

• The Movement for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights

  • Other states have passed laws allowing for same-sex civil unions.
  • Civil unions provide the legal benefits of marriage to same-sex couples, but not the title of marriage.

• Racial Stratification

  • Bazile, told the Lovings during their trial for miscegenation that, 'if God had meant for whites and blacks to mix, he would have not placed them on different continents. ' He also seemed to take pride in telling the Lovings, "as long as you live you will be known as a felon. " The Lovings eventually contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, who took their case to the Supreme Court in 1967, resulting in Loving v.

• New Developments in Families

  • Andersson et al. examined precisely this issue in Norway and Sweden, where same-sex marriages or civil unions have been legally recognized since the mid-1990s.
  • Andersson et al. found several ways in which lesbian/gay unions differ from heterosexual unions in these countries:
  • One question often raised about same-sex unions is how it influences any children raised in these households.

• Types of Social Movements

  • A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
  • Methods of Work: Peaceful movements utilize techniques such as nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.

• Labor Unions

  • The SEIU, or service employees international union, is the fastest growing union in North America.
  • Other forms of unionism include minority unionism, solidarity unionism, and the practices of organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, which do not always follow traditional organizational models.
  • Union membership had been declining in the US since 1954.
  • Most of the recent gains in union membership have been in the service sector while the number of unionized employees in the manufacturing sector has declined.
  • Although most industrialized countries have seen a drop in unionization rates, the drop in union density (the unionized proportion of the working population) has been more significant in the United States than elsewhere.

• Families and Inequality

  • Likewise, slave marriages in the United States were not binding, so that many contrabands escaping slavery during the American Civil War sought official status for their marriages.
  • The participants in a marriage usually seek social recognition for their relationship, and many societies require official approval of a religious or civil body.
  • In many jurisdictions, the civil marriage ceremony may take place during the religious marriage ceremony, although they are theoretically distinct.
  • Conversely, there are people who have religious ceremonies that are not recognized by civil authorities.
  • For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions but there are exceptions including the Unitarian Universalists and Metropolitan Community Church.

• Industrial Conflict

  • An example of a labor union is the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), whose constituent unions represent most American workers.
  • In the old model of the AFL,all carpenters belong to the carpenters' union, the plasterers join the plasterers' union, and the painters belong to the painters' union.
  • Each craft union has its own administration, its own policies, its own collective bargaining agreements, and its own union halls.
  • The Nambu University Teachers Union members picket on May Day 2011.
  • Summarize the main points of industrial sociology and Labor Process Theory, including the development of labor unions and types of unionism

• Educational Reform in the U.S.

  • From the 1950s to the 1970s, many of the proposed and implemented reforms in U.S. education stemmed from the Civil Rights Movement and related trends; examples include ending racial segregation and busing for the purpose of desegregation, affirmative action, and banning of school prayer.
  • Many attribute the purportedly slow pace of reform in the United States to the strength of teachers' unions.
  • In some school districts, labor agreements with teachers' unions may restrict the ability of school systems to implement merit pay and other reforms.
  • In general, union contracts are more restrictive in districts with high concentrations of poor and minority students.
  • Educational reforms during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s focused on civil rights, especially desegregation and affirmative action.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Angela Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany and Chairwoman of Christian Democratic Union.
  • The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was a single step in a broad and continuous effort by women to gain a greater proportion of social, civil, and moral rights for themselves; but was viewed by many as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle for women's equality.
  • Women's suffrage took a back seat to the Civil War and Reconstruction, but America's entry into World War I re-initiated a vigorous push.
  • Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1948, effectively launching the women's civil rights movement in the United States.