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| Rights and property descend from the father. |
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| Rights and property descend from the mother. |
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| Rule by father or eldest male. |
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| The separate life stage between childhood and adulthood |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Anatomical and physical characteristics. |
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| Movement up or down the social class ladder. |
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| Group of people distinct from other groups because of cultural characteristics. |
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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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| Unequal access to economic and political power. |
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| Households that contain several different families. |
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