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| a status that one works for |
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| if the wife dies, the husband takes another wife from the same kin (usually his old wives sister) |
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| partners in marriage lie with or near the husband's father |
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| modes of redistribution which shrinks gaps between have's and have-nots by redistributing wealth |
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| if a husband dies, the wife may (or may be obligated to) marry the deceased husbands brother |
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| based on birth, permanent membership to a specific group with no possibility of individual social mobility (closed system) |
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| the cultural expectations of men and women in a particular society, including the division of labor; the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to the sexes |
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| system in which goods are collected or contributed by members of a group to a social center and then handed back out (social security, income tax) |
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| is a core social institution in all societies, although a kinship rests on biological relationships, kinship systems are cultural phenomena |
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| partners in marriage live with or near the wife's mother |
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| "all members (or component groups) enjoy roughly the same degree of wealth, power and prestige" |
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| set of rights and obligations appropriate for one's social status |
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| groom must work for the family of the bride for a predetermined length of time before they may marry |
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| goods and services bought and sold for money at a price determined by the forces of supply and demand |
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| married partners live with or near either the wife's or husbands parents |
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| unequal distribution of rewards (resources, power, prestige, personal freedom) between men and women |
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| new partners set up an independent household at a place of their own choosing (individualistic societies) |
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| socially structured inequality of entire categories of people who have different access to social rewards as a result of their status (race, ethnicity, gender, class, income/wealth) |
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| characterized by formal, permanent social and economic inequality in which some people are denied access to wealth (including basic resources), power and prestige |
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| patterns of relations between individuals and groups in a society |
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| recognized positions within the social structure, the ways we interact in society is not entirely as individuals, but as occupants of recognized social statuses |
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| transfer of wealth from parents to daughter at the time of her marriage |
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| certain symbolically important goods are transferred from the family of the groom to the family of the bride on the occasion of their marriage |
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| the biological difference between male and female |
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| of uncles found only in martilineal societies, emphasizes the inheritance and labor patterns linking men in a martilineage |
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| a cultural construction that makes biological and physical differences between males and females into socially meaningful categories that seems reasonable and appropriate |
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| the set of social relationships among people within a given group of geographical area |
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