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| Characteristics of Friendship |
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| referst to close social ties between at least two people that are informal, are voluntary, and involve personal, face-to-face interaction |
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| hierarchical relationships between different groups as if they were arranged in layers or "strata" |
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| a persons standing in society based on qualities that the person has gained through action |
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| a persons social standing based on qualities that the person has gained through birth |
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| no economic resources, power, or prestige; ex !Kang, Mbuti, Australian Aborigine, Inuit, Ache |
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| contains social groups with mostly equal access to economic resources or power, but they do have unequal access to prestige. ex; Trobriand islanders, Samoans, Tahiti, Ifaluk |
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| fully stratified range from somewhat open to virtually closed class, or caste systems. ex; US |
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| culturally constructed and learned behaviors and ideas attributed to males, females, or blended genders |
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| Gender Assignment Theories |
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| theories that explain why males are females have different tasks: 1. Strength theory- males are more robust for the job 2. Compatibility with child care theory- women are more compatible for children because they nurse the kid 3. Expendability theory- males are more expendable than females; you can kill off men as long as there are females to bare offspring. |
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| a man who for a time becomes more like a woman, wears female clothing, and has sex with other men. he later returns to a standard male role, marries a woman, and has children |
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| a blurred gender category usually referring to a person who is biologically male but who assumes a female gender role, originates from Native American tribes |
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| a term used in India to refer to a blurred gender role in which a person, usually biologically male, takes on a female dress and behaviour. |
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| a person in the Thailand culture who is a transvestite, transsexual, or hermaphrodite |
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| Gender Stratification Social Capital |
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| amount of rights and influence in different cultures and genders |
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| the term for a group of people of similar age and the same sex who move through some of or all of life's stages together |
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| simply a category of persons who happen to fall within a particular culturally distinguished age range |
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| classification of people into groups on the basis of supposedly homogenous biological traits, such as skin color |
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| shared sense of identity among a group based on heritage, language, or culture |
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| 5 sets become the elders, who then become the retired elders as a part of the senior generation-set |
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| more characteristic of relatively unstratified or egalitarian societies; mostly based on age or sex |
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| a type of association that restricts its membership to one sex, usually male |
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| Arnold van Gennep; rights of passage- preliminal phase, liminal phase and post-liminal phase |
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| cluster of people beyond the domestic unit who are usually related on grounds other than kinship |
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| combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture |
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| mad fit of rage where the person tries to kill and/or injure those around them; linked to shame and honor; SE Asia |
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| Vitamin C deficiency, syntheses of collagen, fruits, vegetables, sun, sunken eyes, swollen gums, and spotted skin |
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| intense community spirit, a feeling of great social solidarity, equality, and togetherness; characteristic of people experiencing liminality together |
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| women in Albania and Montenegro who take over a man's role in society due to a lack of males; must remain celibate |
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| wear dark clothing and paint faces, 12-25, from Kenya and Tanzania, initiation ceremonies and circumcision |
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| neurological disease; the fore culture of Papua New Guinea; transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) |
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| hypocalcaemia, Vitamin D, Osteomalacia; characterized by large forehead, odd ribcage, odd pelvis/femur region |
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| Vitamin deficiency disease, protein; dermatitis, depigmented skin, distended belly, fatigue, loss of muscle mass |
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| vitamin deficiency disease, Thiamine, Loss of appetite, tingling in extremities, weakness in legs |
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| dense lines parallel to the growth plates of long bones on radiographs, representing temporary slowing or cessation of longitudinal growth |
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| white or yellow spots on teeth usually soft, caused by malnutrition, illness, infection or fever during tooth formation |
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| spreads slowly, often fatal, H5N1 |
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| the carrier of an infectious virus that is able to pass the virus from one host to another |
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| cultural anthropologist who studied the people of American Samoa in the mid 1920s |
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| village in Soloman Islands |
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| 1873-1957, french ethnographer, Rights of Passage |
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| 1950-1983, communitas- unstructured community where all members are equal |
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| a fright sickness in which soul leaves the body, typically found in culturally stressed adults, latin American Cultures, cured in a ceremony known as limpieza by a curandero, symptoms: nervousness, insomnia, listlessness, depression |
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| associated with industrial, western societies, found mostly in Euro-American adolescent girls, difficult to cure medically, experts suggest it is due to excessive concern with looks by societal pressures |
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| (genital retraction syndrome) fear that their genitals are retracting or disappearing, SE Asia/Africa, may tie string to prevent disappearance |
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