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| “people who feel they are one sex thought biologically they are the other.” (Macionis, 2008, 657) [NOTE: a transsexual may or may not undergo hormonal treatment and/or undergo an operation to change genitals.] |
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| The seclusion of women from the sight of men or strangers, practiced by some Muslims and Hindus. |
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| [NOTE: We are looking at Nature in opposition to Culture.] the material world, esp. as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities. |
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| a set of learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, or ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population. This forms patterned and interrelated traditions, which are transmitted over time and space by non-biological mechanisms based on man’s uniquely developed linguistic and non-linguistic symbolizing capability; culture can also refr to a population unit defined by this commonality. |
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