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| arrangement of large social groups based on thier control over basic resources |
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| extent to which individuals have access to societal resources such as food clothing, helter education and health care |
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| peoples status is determined at birth |
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| belief that low-income countries have been exploited by the high-income countries |
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| econmic gain based on wages, slaries, income transfers and property ownership |
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| the value of a families econmic assets |
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| the respect with which a person or status position is regarded by others |
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| low paying jobs mainly heald by women |
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| economic deprivation that exists when a people do not ave the means to secure the basic necessities of life |
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| people can afford basic necessities but are still not able to maintain the average standard of living |
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| all positions are rewarded based on people's ability and credentials |
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| group that is advantaged and has superior resources and rights in society |
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| nagative attitude based on faulty generalizations about selected racial ethnice, or other groups |
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| set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that is used to justify the superior treatment of one racial or ethnic group |
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| the spiritual and social seperation of categories of people by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and or religion |
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| a person in whom sexual differentation is ambiguous or incomplete |
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| a person in whom the sex-related structures of the brain that define gender indentity are oppisite from the physical sex organs of the persons body |
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| a male who lives as a woman or a female who lives as a man but does not alter the genitalia |
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| the culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with femininity and masculininty |
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| the subordination of one sex, usually female, based on the assumed superiority of the other sex |
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| a term used to describe the disparity between women's and men's earnings |
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| a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption |
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| the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes places |
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| the family that a person forms by having or adopting children |
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| a family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household. |
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| a family composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives |
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| a legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity |
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| a marriage between two partner, usually a woman and a man |
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| the concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex |
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| the concurrent marriage of one woman with two or more men |
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| the concurrent marriage of one man with two or more women |
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| a system or tracing decent through the fathers side of the family |
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| system of tracing decent through the mothers side of the family |
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| a system or tracing decent through both the mother's and father's sides of the family |
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| the subdiscipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variation in family structure |
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| the domestic work that employed women perform at home after they complete their workday on the job |
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| the social institution respnsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure. |
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| a system of beliefs, symbols, and rituals, based on some sacred or supernatural realm, that guides human behavior, gives meanings to life, and unites believers into a community |
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| those aspects of life that are exraodinary or supernatural |
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| the everyday, secular, or "worldly" aspects of life |
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| a relatively small religious group that has broken away from another religious organization to renew what it views as the original version of the faith |
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| a religious group with practices and teachings outide the dominant cultural and religious traditions of a society |
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