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| two people living together in a sexual relationship of some permanence, without being married to one another |
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| a family group consisting of more than two generations of relatives living either within the same household or very close to one another |
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| a group of individuals related to one another by blood ties, marriage, or adoption, who form an economic unit, the adult members of which are responsible for the upbringing of children |
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| the family into which an individual is born |
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| the family an individual initiates through marriage or by having children |
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| a relation that links individuals through blood ties, marriage, or adoption |
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| a socially approved sexual relationship between two individuals |
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| a family system in which the husband is expected to live near the wife's parents |
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| a form of marriage in which each married partner is allowed only one spouse at any given time |
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| a family group consisting of a wife, a husband (or one of these), and dependent children |
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| a family system in which the wife is expected to live near the husband's parents |
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| Personality Stabilization |
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| according to the theory of functionalism, the family plays a crucial role in assisting its adult members emotionally |
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| a form of marriage in which a woman may simultaneously have two or more husbands |
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a form of marriage in which a person may have two or more spouses simultaneously
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| a form of marriage in which a man may simultaneously have two or more wives |
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| the process by which children learn the cultural norms of the society into which they are born; occurs largely in the family |
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| a family in which at least one partner has children from a previous marriage, living either in the home or nearby |
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| the sense that our own abilities as human beings are taken over by other entities |
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| a large body of people belonging to an established religious organization; also the place in which religious ceremonies are carried out |
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| a fragmentary religious grouping to which individuals are loosely affiliated, but which lacks any permanent structure |
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| a religious sect that has lost its revivalist dynamism and become an institutionalized body, commanding the adherence of significant numbers of people |
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| traits of behavior or attitudes that are learned at school but not included within the formal curriculum - for example, gender differences |
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| level of intelligence ability, particularly as measured by IQ tests |
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| IQ (Intelligence Quotient) |
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| a score attained on tests of symbolic or reasoning abilities |
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| an activist Catholic religious movement that combines Catholic beliefs with a passion for social justice for the poor |
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| that which belongs to the mundane, everyday world |
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| a set of beliefs adhered to by the members of a community, incorporating symbols regarded with a sense of awe or wonder together with ritual practices |
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| a theoretical framework within the sociology of religion, which argues that religions can be fruitfully understood as organizations in competition with one another for followers |
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| the linking of strongly held religious convictions with beliefs about a people's social and political destiny |
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| describing something that inspires attitudes of awe or reverence among believers in a given set of religious ideas |
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| a religious movement that breaks away from orthodoxy |
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| worldly thinking, particularly as seen in the rise of science, technology, and rational thought in general |
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| a process of decline in the influence of religion |
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| a belief in one or more supernatural deities |
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| dividing students into groups according to ability |
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| the sense that our own abilities as human beings are taken over by other entities |
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| a government's legitimate use of power |
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| production processes monitored and controlled by machines with only minimal supervision from people |
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| an economic system based on the private ownership of wealth, which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit |
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| a member of a political community, having both rights and duties associated with that membership |
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| legal rights held by all citizens in a given national community |
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| a system of one-party rule; no real choice at all; controls not just the political system but the economy as well |
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| real power is severely restricted by the constitution, which vests authority in the elected representatives of the people |
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| business firms or companies |
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| a form of participatory democracy that allows citizens to vote directly on laws and policies |
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| the specialization of work tasks, by means of which different occupations are combined within a production system |
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| the fact that in the division of labor, individuals depend on others to produce many or most of the goods they need to sustain their lives |
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| the system of production and exchange that provides for the material needs of individuals living in a given society |
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| the owner/founder of a business firm |
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| capitalistic enterprise owned and administered by entrepreneurial families |
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| economic transactions carried on outside the sphere of orthodox paid employment |
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| capitalistic enterprise organized on the basis of institutional shareholding |
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| a society no longer based primarily on the production of material goods but based instead on the production of knowledge |
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| capitalistic enterprises administered by managerial executives rather than by owners |
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| a situation in which a single firm dominates in a given industry |
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| a particular type of state, characteristic of the modern world, in which a government has sovereign power within a defined territorial area, and the population are citizens who know themselves to be part of single nation |
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| a set of beliefs and symbols expressing identification with a national community |
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| any form of paid employment in which an individual regularly works |
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| the domination of a small number of firms in a given industry |
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| Pluralist Theories of Modern Democracy |
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| the ability of individuals or the members of a group to achieve aims or further the interests they hold |
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| a temporary stoppage of work by a group of employees in order to express a grievance or enforce a demand |
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| the application of knowledge of the material world to production; the creation of material instruments used in human interaction with nature |
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| Transnational/Multinational Corporations |
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| business corporations located in two or more countries |
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| practice in which large corporations protect their employees from the vicissitudes of the market |
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| the activity by which people produce from the natural world and so ensure their survival |
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