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| A social status acquired during one's lifetime |
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| A social status given to someone at birth |
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| The right recognized by the culture and granted by the group to exercise power |
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| in societies without states or other formal organization, a loosely structured and semistable group of fifteen to sixty people, usually members of related nuclear family households, who reside and travel together |
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| A duty of a groom to work for his father-in-law for a certain period of time after marriage |
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| a form of political organization based on membership in descent groups such as lineages or clans, whose leaders are arranged in a hierarchy of power and authority such that some chiefs have inherited substantial influence over their kinfolk and other chiefs |
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| a kin group whose members claim descent from mythical beings |
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| a social group in a hierarchy of groups distinguished on the basis of priveledges made possible by control over valuable resources, such as wealth |
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| the child of your mother's brother or father's sister |
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| describing a social relationship in which there are few status or authority differences between individuals except generation and gender |
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| the cultural preference or requirement to marrt someone outside of one's kin group |
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| a domestic group composed of parents and at least one married child with his or her spouse and children |
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| a kin group whise memevers trace descent from a common ancestor |
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| a domestic family composed of parents and unmarried children |
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| kin groups whos memebers trace descent through males from a common ancestor. Lineage males often live and work together |
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| the study of the wat economic behavior and power relationships influence each other |
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| the duties or guidelines for behavior in a specific status, and specifications for how to interact with persons in the other social statuses |
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| a form of political organization based on a powerful central government, which may or may not be kin based but has authority to wield power over most aspects of its members' lives |
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| the positions in the social structure defined in terms of authority, privileges, duties, and sometimes prestige and a title |
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| a social organization composed of as many as thousands of individuals organized by village residence and memevership in large descent groups |
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