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| a family formed when at least one of the marriage partners had been married before and had one or more children from a previous marriage. |
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| members of a society who own the means for producing wealth |
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| an economic system founded on the canctity of private property and the right of indicifuals to profit from thier labor |
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| the type of stratification structure in which there is no social movement because social status is inherited and cannot be changed |
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| the concentration of a large population in need of public services but without the tax gnerated income to provide them |
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| publicly funded schools that operate like private schools but have public schoolteachers and administrators. |
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| a dense and permanent concentration of people living in a limited geographical area who fgain their living primarily through nonagricultural activites. |
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| the conflict between those controlling the means for producing wealth and those laboring or them. |
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| social interaction where individuals or groups are forced to give in to the will of other idividuals or groups. |
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| the capacity for thinking abstractly |
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| the relativley spontaneous and unstructured social behavior of people who are responding to similiar stimuli |
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| a concentration of people who live within a limited gergraphical area and whose social relationships fulfill major social and economic needs. |
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| a description of ther process of urban growth empasizing circular areas that deelop from the central city outwards |
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| the theoretical perspective that emphasizes conflict, competition, change, and constraint within society. |
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| a network of unrelated business operating under a single corporate umbrella. |
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| the consumption of goods and services to display ones wealth. |
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| the political structure that rules a nation. |
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| the annual number of persons per one thousand members of a population who enter or leave a geographical area. |
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| the form of marriage in which two or more men are married to two or more women at the same time |
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| a criminal act moticated by prejudice |
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| health maintance organization |
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| health plans in which members pay set fees on a regular basis and in reture recieve all necessary health care at little or no additional fees. |
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| the educational curriculam that transmits to children a cariety of nonacademic values norms beliefs and attitudes. |
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| the educational curriculam that transmits to children a cariety of nonacademic values norms beliefs and attitudes. |
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| the tendency to marry someone similiar to oneself based on personal prefrence |
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| a society that solves the subsistence problem primarily through the domestication of animals |
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| organizations provide special medical care for those who continue to live at home and others who reside in the hospitals for a prolonged period of time |
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| hunting and gathering society |
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| a society that solves the subsistence problem through hunting naimals and gathering wild fruits and vegetables |
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| a tentative testable statement of a relationship between particualr variables |
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| a method that involves isolating the most basic charachteristics of some social entity |
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| the development stage during which according to mead a child imitates the physical and verbal behavior of a significant other without comprehending the meaning of what is being imitated |
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| intergenerational mobility |
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| social mobility that occurs from one generation the the next |
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| interorganizational relationship |
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| a pattern of iteration among authorized representatives of two or more formally independent organizations |
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| a set of questions asked by a trained interviewer |
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| the creation of a new element by combining two or more already existing elements and creating new rules for their use and unique combination |
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| the amount of money recieved within a given time period by an individual or group. |
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| indirect institutionalized discrimination |
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| unintentional behavior that negatively affects a racial or ethnic minority |
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| individualistic capitalism |
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| the type of capitalism founded on the principles of self interest the free market, profit maximization, and the highest return possible on the stockholders investment. |
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| rewards and punishments that must be applied by most members of a group |
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| a group towards which one feels intense identification and loyalty |
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| institutionalized discrimination |
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| discrimination that results from unfair practives that are part of the structure of society and have grown out of traditionally accepted bahaviors |
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| the existence of a split between core a peripheral segments of the economy and the division of the labor force into prefered and marginalized workers. |
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| a negative consequence of some element of a society |
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| the institution designed for the production and distribution of goods and services. |
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| when schooling produces the same results for lower class and minority as it does for other children. |
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| the theory of crowd behavior that stresses the similarity between typical everyda social behavior and crowd behavior. |
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| the study of disease distribution within a population |
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| the tencency o judge others in relation to onesown cultural standards |
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| mate selection norms requiring individuals to marry someone outside their kin |
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| the group in an experimentexposed to the experimental variable |
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| when the absolite growth of a population that occurs within a given time period becomes part of the base for the growth rate in the next time period. |
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| acceptance of a system that works agianst ones own interests. |
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| the capacity of the family to emerge from crises as stronger and more resourceful |
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| more of the people living in poverty are women and children. |
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| the number of annual births per onethousand women from the ages of 15-45 |
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| not able to be measured through quantitative methods and are best understood in natural settings. |
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| norms with moral overtones |
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| he branch of demography that deals with gathering collecting analyzing and presenting population data. |
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| schools ran byprivate companies on goernment funds. |
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| according to mead the stage of development during which children learn to consider the roles of several people at the same time. |
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| an intergrated perception of the norms values and beliefs of ones society |
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| the development of low income ares by middle class home buyers and developers. |
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| the society where the elderly hold the greatest share of the scarce desirables |
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| tonnies term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties and imperson relationships. |
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| individuals hired on a part time or contract based. |
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| a peoples way of life consisting of material objects as well as the patterns of thinking feeling and behaving that is passed from generation to generation among members of society. |
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| subjugation based on comon everyday social practieces |
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| subjugation based on the law |
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| the type of political system in whichelected officials are held responsible for fulfilling the goals of the majorit of the electorate. |
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| the form of control in which authority is split evenly between husband and wife. |
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| the process by which a population gradually moves from high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates as a result of economic development. |
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| the scientific study of population. |
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| one of several religious organizations that members of a society accept as legitimate |
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| the proportion of thoase in the dependency ages relative to those who are economically active |
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| a variable in which a change can be observed |
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| the process of relinquishing old norms values attitudes and behaviors. |
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| intimidation of members of society into compliance with requirements of the legal system. |
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| differential association theory |
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| the theory that deciant behavior is learnes that the more individuals are exposed to people who break the law the more likely they are to become criminals. |
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| direct institutuionalized discrimination |
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| organization or commnity actions intended to deprive a racial or ethnic monority its rights |
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| the social process of learning somethin or reinterpreting something |
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| particiapnts in the less structured forms of collective behavior such as rumors panics and fads. |
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| the symbolic inteactionist approach that depicts social life as theatre. |
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| inpulses to do something to reduce discomfort |
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