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The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationships i
Chapter 3
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Women's & Gender Studies
Undergraduate 1
01/25/2010

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Patrilineal
Definition
Rights and property descend from the father.
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Matrilineal
Definition
Rights and property descend from the mother.
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Patriarchy
Definition
Rule by father or eldest male.
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Adolescence
Definition
The separate life stage between childhood and adulthood
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Upper-middle class
Definition
Highly paid professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers) who have annual incomes that may reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. They are typically college educated although they may not have attended the same elite colleges as the upper-upper class.
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Lower-middle class
Definition
Population, made up of white-collar service workers with incomes between $25,000 and $50,000. They own or rent modest homes, purchase more affordable automobiles, and hope to send their children to college.
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Working class
Definition
Tend to work as skilled laborers, earn between $15,000 and $25,000, and have high school or vocational educations. The working class lives somewhat precariously, with little savings and few liquid assets should illness or job loss occur. They have difficulty buying their own homes or sending their children to college.
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Feminization of poverty
Definition
Resulting from a combination of high divorce rates and more nonmarital childbearing, almost 40% of those living in poverty are single women and their children.
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Racial group
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A group of people, such as whites, blacks, and Asians, classified according to phenotype as well as anatomical and physical characteristics.
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Phenotype
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Anatomical and physical characteristics.
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Social mobility
Definition
Movement up or down the social class ladder.
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Ethnic group
Definition
Group of people distinct from other groups because of cultural characteristics.
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Minority group
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A group whose status (position in the social hierarchy) places its members at an economic, social, and political disadvantage.
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Minority status
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Unequal access to economic and political power.
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Extended households
Definition
Households that contain several different families.
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