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| A social group that serves as a point of reference in making evaluations and decisions |
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| The violation of society's formally enacted crime law |
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| The recognized violation of cultural norms |
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| The recognized violation of cultural norms |
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| Social stratification based on ascription, or birth |
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| A system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy |
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| A model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones |
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| A model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between nations |
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| Communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech |
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| A social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty |
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| A web of weak social ties |
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| A social group toward which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition |
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| Unequal treatment of various categories of people |
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| A shared cultural heritage |
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| A rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people |
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| The belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another |
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| A simplified description applied to every person in some category |
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| The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male |
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| A form of social organization in which females dominate males |
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| A form of social organization in which males dominate females |
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| The social institution that distributes power, sets a society's goals, and makes decisions |
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| Included as an ordinary element of everyday life |
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| A social institution involving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred |
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| Marriage between people of the same social category |
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| Marriage between people of different social categories |
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| A social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children |
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| A family composed of one or two parents and their children also known as a conjugal family |
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| A graphic representation of the age and sex of a population |
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| The study of human population |
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| The incidence of childbearing in a country's population |
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| The number of males for every 100 females in a nation's population |
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| A type of social organization in which people are closely tied by kinship and tradition |
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| A type of social organization in which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest |
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| The study of the interaction of living organisms and the natural environment |
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| Durkheim's term for a condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals |
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| A social group with three members |
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| A relationship in which two (or more) variables change together |
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| Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture |
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| Cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite |
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| Traits that are part of every known culture |
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| Behavior, values, and beliefs passed form generation to generation |
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| The process by which some nations enrich themselves through political and economic control of other nations |
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| A state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing |
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| An economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are privately owned |
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| The part of the economy that involves services rather than goods |
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| A category of people with something in common, usually their age |
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