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| child lives with husband's mother's brother |
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| people considered to be relatives and share a sense of identity as kinfolk |
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| culturally defined social relationships based on marriage and birth |
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| only one set of parents and their children |
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| Extended Household/Family |
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| Group of related nuclear families |
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| socially approved union of two people |
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| marriage outside the group |
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| marriage inside the group |
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| prohibition against sex between certain kinds of relatives |
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| one man has multiple wives |
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| one woman has multiple husbands |
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| groom and relatives transfer goods to bride's family to validate marriage |
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| a man spends a period of time working for the wife's family |
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| couple chooses which family to live with |
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| couple establishes house away from parents |
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| notion of common heritage |
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| descent through one line (patrilineal or matrilineal) |
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| trace kinship through both parents |
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| all the bilateral relatives of an individual |
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| Clans linked together into larger groups |
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| (ramages) trace kinship through females and males |
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| members of a kinship group focus a natural object with which they are associated |
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| unequal access to valued economic resources and prestige |
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| little inequality in access to culturally valued rewards |
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| a fixed number of statuses that carry prestige and only certain individuals can attain these statuses |
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| marked and usually heritable differences in access to wealth, power and prestige |
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| stratification in which membership in a stratum can theoretically be altered |
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| membership in a stratum is hereditary and strata are endogamous |
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| value of what is earned during a given period of time |
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| categories of different kinds of people who interact |
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| rules for action associated with particular statuses |
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| (1) ownership of/access to valued goods and resources to produce those goods (2) total value of all property owned |
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| respect, esteem and overt approval other members of the group grant to individuals they consider meritorious |
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| ability to make others do what you want based on coercion or legitimate authority |
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| Cultural construction of gender |
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| the characteristics a people attribute to males/females are culturally, not biologically, determined |
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| adoption of social roles/behavior from the other sex |
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| Multiple Gender Identities |
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| presence in some cultures of more than two sexes |
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| inequality between males and females based on culturally defined differences between the sexes |
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| autonomous/independent groups consisting of one or few extended families; have informal leadership in elder |
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| autonomous/independent political units consisting of several extended families |
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| informal political leaders who's power is based on influence |
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| Autonomous political unit that consists of dispersed communities held together by socialites |
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| formal institutions that unite geographically scattered groups |
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| centralized political system; authority is usually hereditary and exchange is usually based on redistribution |
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| a centralized, multilevel political unit; bureaucracy act on behalf of ruling elite |
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| behavior is constrained and directed; promotes conformity |
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| social control via authority, universal application, obligation and sanction |
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| single individual or group settles dispute |
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| sanctions imposed are designed to regulate rather than punish |
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| never settled by individuals with special authority |
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| occurs outside the law; leads to violence |
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| wronged individuals settle matters themselves |
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| requires physical or mental combat between two disputants |
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| trusted 3rd party to negotiate |
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| take an oath/submit to a test |
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| informal community meeting to solve conflict |
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| formally organized; authority to make and enforce decisions |
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| make/carry out public policy |
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| contribute to adoption and enforcement of policy |
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| positive evaluation of public officials and public policy |
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| support derived from threats/force/promise |
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| ability to influence others to act |
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