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| a life stage between childhood and adulthood |
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| male body image disorder in which men believe that they must look like Greek gods |
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a group of people who are born within a specific time period and therefore
assumed to share both chronological and functional characteristics |
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| distinctive cultural values, pursuits, and pastimes that are culturally prescribed for each age cohort |
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| differential treatment based on age, usually affecting the elderly rather than the young |
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| eating disorder involving chronic and dangerous starvation dieting and obsessive exercise |
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| a sexual identity organized around attraction to both women and men |
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| eating disorder involving “binging and purging” |
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| a person’s age determined by the actual date of birth |
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| a set of observable characteristics and attributes that are used to categorize people into different age cohorts |
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| the sociological study of aging |
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the growth in the proportion of Americans over age 65 while the
proportion under age 35 shrinks |
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| the institutionally based inequality that may derive from homophobia |
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| sexual behavior between people of different genders |
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an attitude, a socially approved dislike of gay men and lesbians, the presumption
that they are inferior to straight people |
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| sexual desires or behavior with members of one’s own gender |
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| a deliberately vague blanket term to describe a sexual encounter which may or may not include sexual intercourse, usually occurring only on one occasion between two people who are strangers or brief acquaintances |
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| the average number of years that people born in a certain year could expect to live |
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| the length of a person’s life, which all societies divide into stages, seasons, or age groups |
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| term used to describe the fact that women’s sexuality is becoming increasingly similar to men’s |
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| male body image disorder involving the belief that they are too small, insufficiently muscular |
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| the end of work, which is a mark of social status |
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| middle-aged adults who are caring for dependent children and aging parents at the same time |
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when we are discussing sexuality, refers not to one’s biological sex, but rather to sexual behavior or sexual conduct—the things people do from which they derive sexual
meanings |
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| the globalization of prostitution, in which wealthy men are directed to poor women in other countries for sex |
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| any behavior that brings sexual pleasure or release |
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| an identity that is organized by the gender of the person(s) to whom we are sexually attracted; may also be called sexual orientation |
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| a set of ideas and practices that answer the basic questions about sex |
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| process through which, over the course of childhood and adolescence, and even through adulthood, our understanding of our culture’s sexual scripts begin to cohere into a preference |
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| identities we construct that are often based on our sexual conduct |
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| program begun in 1940 that improved the financial situation of the elderly |
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| an umbrella term that describes a variety of people, behaviors, and groups whose identities depart from normative gender ideals of masculinity and femininity |
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