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| The biological and anatomical differences between females and males |
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| Primary Sex Characteristics |
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| the genetalia used in the reproductive process |
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| Secondary Sex Characteristics |
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| The physical traits that idenitfy an idividual's sex. |
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| A person in whom sexual differentiation is ambiguous or incomplete |
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| A person who believes that he or she was born with the body of the wrong sex. |
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| A male who lives as a woman or a female who lives as a man but does not alter the genetalia |
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| A person's preference for emotional-sexual relationship with members of the opposite sex, the same sex, or both. |
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| Extreme prejudice and sometimes discriminatory actions directed at gays, lesbians, bisexual, and others who are perceived as not being heterosexual. |
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| The culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with "feminity" and "masculity" |
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| The attitudes, behavior, and activities that are socially defined as appropriate for each sex and are learned through the socialization process. |
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| A peron's perception of the self as female or male. |
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| A term that describe that how a person perceives and feels about his or her body. |
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| The subordination of one sex, usually female, based on the assumed superiority of the other sex. |
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| A hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by men. |
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| A hierarchical system of social organiztion in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by women. |
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| Behavior that shows favoritism toward one gender over the other |
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| A term used to describe the disparity between women's and men's earnings. |
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| The belief that wages ough to reflect the worth of a job, not the gender or race of the worker. |
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| The belief that all people-both women and men- are equal and that they should be valued equally and have equal rights. |
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| Relationships in which people live together with committment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identify to be significantly attached to the group. |
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| a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. |
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| the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place. |
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| the family that a person forms by having or adopting children |
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| A family unit composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives. |
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| A family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household |
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| A legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity. |
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| A marriage between two partners, usually a man and a woman. |
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| The concurrent marraige of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex. |
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| The concurrent marriage of one man with more two or more women. |
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| The concurrent marriage of one woman with two or more men. |
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| A system of tracing descent through the father's side of the family |
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| A system of tracing descent through the mother's side of the family |
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| A system of tracing descent through both the mother's and father's sides of the family. |
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| A family structure in which authority is held by the eldest male. (usually the father) |
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| A family structure in which authority is held by the eldest female (usually the mother) |
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| A family structure in which both partners share power and authority equally |
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| The custom of a married couple living in the same household as the husband's family. |
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| The custom of a married couple living in the same household as the wife's parents. |
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| The custom of a married couple living in their own residence apart from both the husband's and the wife's parents. |
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| The subdiscipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variations in family structure. |
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| A situation in which two people live together and think of themselves as a couple, without being legally married |
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| Household partnerships in which an unmarried couple lives together in a committed, sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights and benefits as those accorded to married heterosexual couples. |
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| The pattern of individals marrying those who have similar characteristics, such as race/ethnicity , religious background, age, education, or social class. |
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| Marriages in which both spouses are in the labor force |
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| Arlie Hochschild's term for the domestic work that employed women perform at home after they complete their workday |
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| A family consisting of a husband and wife, children from previous marriages, and children from the new marriage. |
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