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| State of being related to others |
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| Both sides of a person's family are reagrded as equally important |
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| Only fathe'r relatives are important |
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| Only mother's relative are importatnt |
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| Family in which relatives-such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles-live in the same household as parents and children |
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| Married couple and their unmarried children living together |
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| form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other |
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| When a person has several spouses in his or her lifetime, but only one spouse at a time |
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| Form of marriage in which an individual may hve several husbands or wives simultaneously |
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| Form of polygamy in which a man may have more than one wife at the same time |
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| form of polygamy in which a womaan may have more than one husband at the same time |
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| Functionalist definition of Family |
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| Definition of families that focuses on what families do for society and for their members |
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| men dominate in decision making |
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| women dominate in decision making |
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| Authority pattern in which spouses are regarded as equals |
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| Restriction of mate selection to people within the same group |
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| mate selection outside certain groups |
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| conscious or unconscious tendency to select mate with personal characteristics similar to one's own |
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| Practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying |
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| two unrelated adults who share mutually caring relationship, reside together, and agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents, basic living expenses, and other necessities |
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| formal process of instruction in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner |
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| teacher-expectancy effect |
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| impact that a teachers expectations about students performance may have on actual student achievements |
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| practice placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of their test scores and other criteria |
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| Substantive definition of Religion |
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| Religion has unique content or substance relating to the sacred that seperates it from other forms of knowledge and belief |
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| elements beyond everyday life that inspire respect, awe, and even fear |
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| ordinary and commonplace elements of life |
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| functionalist definition of religion |
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| religion unifies believers into a community through shared practices and a common set of beliefs relative to sacred things |
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| statment to which members of a particular religion adhere |
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| rigid adherence to core religious doctrines |
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| practices required or expected of members of a faith |
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| feeling or perception of being in direct contact with ultimate reality or of being overcome with religious emotion |
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| religious organization claiming to include most or all of the members of a society: is recognized as the national or official religion |
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| large, organized religion not offically linked to the state or government |
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| relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it considers the orginal vision of the faith |
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| religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect, yet remains isolated from society |
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| New religious movement or cult |
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| Small, alternative faith community that represents either a new religion or a major innovation in an existing faith |
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| religious diminishing influence in the public sphere, especially in politics and the economy |
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| use of a church in political efforts to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice from a secular society |
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| significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture |
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| society viewed as moving in a definite direction |
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| as changes occur in one part of society, adjustments must be made in other parts |
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| period of maladjustment when nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions |
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| people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change; have a stake in maintaining the status quo |
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| cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires |
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| organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society |
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| conscious feeling of negative discrepency between legitimate expectations and present actualities |
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| process of recognizing the impact our individual position has on who we are and how we think and act, and taking responsibility for the impacts our actions have on others |
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| process of bringing insights gained through sociological observation and analysis into the public sphere, thereby seeking to bring about positive social change |
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