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| forbids intercource among related individuals |
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basic family form.
married couple w/kids. |
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nuclear fam's linked by multiple marriage bonds of one central spouse.
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| central person-male, spouses are female. |
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| central-female, male spouses. |
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| other relations & generations in addition to nuclear family. gparents, siblings, in-laws. |
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| generations are tied together through MALES of family. |
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| generations tied together by FEMALE. |
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| descent passes through both male & female families. |
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| most family affairs are dominated by men. |
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| most family affairs are dominated by women. |
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| social & legitmized union of individuals of opposite sexes. |
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| the two families that produced the two spouses. |
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| family created by the marriage of spouses. |
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| rules that limit social categories inwhich one can choose a marriage partner. |
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require an individual to marry someone outside his or her culturally defined group.
merien has to marry jimmy. |
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| only allowed one spouse at a time. |
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| individual may have more than one spouse. |
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| govern where a couple settles down. |
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| calls for a new couple to settle down near or within the husbands fathers household. |
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| calls for the new couple to settle down near or within the wifes mothers household. |
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| new couples choose whether to live near husbands or wifes family of origin. |
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couple may choose to live virtually anywhere.
this is how it is in the US. |
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| tendency of like to marry like. |
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| marriage based on romantic love. |
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unmarried couples living together
"living in sin" |
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system of beliefs and values shared by a group.
defines the sacred, helps explain life, and offers salvation for problems of human existence. |
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| consists of all empirically observable things, things that are knowable throuhg common knowledge, and everyday experiences. |
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| things that are awe inspiring and knowable only through extraordinary experiences. |
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| pattern of behavior or practices that are related to the sacred. |
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| means for individual to address or communicate with supernatural beigns or forces. |
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active attempt to coerce spirits or to control supernatural forces.
differs from religious beliefs in that god or gods are not worshipped. |
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| existence of supernatural forms, can and often do, influence human events. |
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| diffuse, force that acts through anything that lives or moves. not harmful. |
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| sacred prohibition against touching, mentioning, or looking at certain objects, acts or people. |
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belief in inanimate, ghosts of ancestors that take an interest in, and actively work to influence, human affairs.
-beings with feelings, motives, and wills of their own. |
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| belief in devine beings-gods and godesses-who shape human affairs. |
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| belief in a number of gods. |
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| focus on the achievment of personal awareness of correct ways of thinking and behaving, rather than manipulating spirits or worshipping gods. |
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| object, plant or animal, becomes sacred symbol to and of group/clan. not only revere the totem, but identify with it. |
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| Revitalization movements? |
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| powerful religious movements that stress a return to tradtional religious values of past. |
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| process by which people lose control over and social institutions they themselves invented. |
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| all members of a society within one united moral community. |
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| church that chares teh same ethical system as secular society and has come to represent and promote the interest of the society at large. |
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| tends to limit its membership to a particular class, ethnic group, religious group, or atleast have its leadership postions dominated as so. |
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| small group that adheres stictly to religious doctrine and often includes unconventional beliefs or forms of worship. |
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| typically prophesy the end of the world, destruction of evil ppl and their works, and saving of the just. |
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| less influenced by religion. |
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| trend among many religious communities to draw together and project a sense of unity and common direction. |
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| major portions of societys knowledge are passed from one generation to the next. |
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| laws prohibiting one racial group form attending school with another. |
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