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Sociology

Chapter 14 in James M. Henslin’s Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach opens with a story about a woman who is 30 years old, and is about to have her 13th child. She lives in extreme poverty in Colima, Mexico and cannot even afford to have a chair in her house. Mr. Henslin was invited to dinner at the woman’s house where she discussed her huge excitement for her 13th child’s birth. Henslin was astonished at this fact and goes on to explain in the chapter 14 why she feels the way she does.
There are three reasons that he came up with which describe her excitement. Those are her statues as a mother is a very high honor in her culture, the community supports her view, and children are economic assets (Henslin 390). This story has several similarities and relations to chapter 14 as “The Good Behavior Bribe” article. Both of the families live in a particular bracket of poverty (the native Mexican family in a more extreme level of poverty), they both have an above......


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