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| group of people related by marriage, blood, and adoption |
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| a family a person is born into |
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| established upon marriage |
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| nucleus or core upon which larger family groups are built |
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| a family in which relatives such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles live in the same house as parents and their children |
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| one man to only one woman at a time |
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| -refers to mate selection norms requiring individuals to marry someone outside their kind |
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| -mate selection norms that require individuals to marry their own kind |
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| political system in which power is exercized by people as a whole |
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| a single family rules from one generation to the next |
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| -economic system in which the means of producing goods and services are privately owned |
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| economic system in which the means of producing goods and services are collectively owned |
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| the domination of an entire market by a single producer |
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domination of a market by a few companies
(no longer families, now corporations) |
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| multinational corporations |
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| firms in highly industrialized societies with operating facilities throughout the world |
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| -two seperate labor markets |
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| the average # of children born alive to any woman, assuming that she conforms to current fertility rate |
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| the # of deaths per 1000 population in a given year |
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| demographic transition theory |
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| -thesis linking demographic change to a society's level of technological development |
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| standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society are taught subtly in school |
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| the way a society is organized into predictable relationships |
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| a continuing process that an individual gets a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position. |
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| a culture with values and mores that run counter to those of established society |
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| A practice, custom, or belief shared by the members of a group as part of their common culture. |
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| structural functional theory |
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| addresses society as a whole |
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| places emphasis on micro-scale social interaction to provide subjective meaning in human behavior |
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| post-marital residence when a newly married couple resides separately from both the husband's natal household and the wife's natal household |
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| term referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents |
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| societal system in which a married couple resides with or near the wife's parents |
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| form of marriage in which an individual has only one spouse at any one time |
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| both husband and wife worked |
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| running from late afternoon to midnight |
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| The placing of students in any of several courses of study according to ability, achievement, or needs |
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| supported by public funds and providing free education for children of a community or district |
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| school that provides religious education in addition to conventional education |
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| some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators |
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| receive public money but are not subject to some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results |
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| public schools with specialized courses |
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| certificate issued by the government, which parents can apply toward tuition at a private school |
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| an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator |
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| political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible |
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| a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with an elite class distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, commercial, and/or military legitimacy |
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| form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy |
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| someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer |
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| political action committee |
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| name commonly given to a private group, regardless of size, organized to elect political candidates or to advance the outcome of a political issue or legislation |
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| small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, and access to decision-making of global consequence |
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| pluralist power structure |
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| concept used to examine the way in which societies are structured, and specifically is a way to explain coverage differences in media markets |
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| the totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 |
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| an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions |
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| measured by the rate of births respectively among a population of 1000 |
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| expected number of years of life remaining at a given age |
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| sense of togetherness in a society that arises when people, performing similar work, share similar experiences, customs, values, and beliefs |
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| social unity based on a division of labor that results in people depending on each other |
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