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ethnocentrism
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using the practices of your own "people" as a yardstick to measure how well the customs of other, different peoples measure up.
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cultural relativism
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anthropologists were urged to interpret specific beliefs and practices in the context of the culture to which they belonged
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phonemas
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minimal units of sound recognized by speakers of a particular language
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morphmes
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the minimal unit of meaning in a language
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syntax
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the structure of sentences
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kinesics
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body language
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lexicon
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in a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions
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dialect
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variety of a language; speech patterns
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register
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versions of a particular language associated with particular social settings(court room talk vs. chat with friend)
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code switching
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switching from one variety(register) to another depending on audience
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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the culture and thought patterns of people are strongly influenced by the language they speak
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minimal response
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non-verbal elements of communication
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tag question
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Women use these to convey submission in conversational speech
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medicalization
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process by which health or behavior conditions come to be defined and treated as medical issues
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embodiment
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we can not experience the body outside of culture, it inextricably instructs us in the interpretation of body signs; pain, beauty, desire etc are learned experiences of the body.
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overweight
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comparison to norm, BMI, HWR
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anorexia nervosa
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an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight
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obesity trends
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the gender difference in the total percent and site distribution of body fat, the concentration of obesity in certain ethnic groups, the increase in obesity associated with economic modernization, the powerful and complex relationship between social class and obesity
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motivations for eating
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hunger, celebration, social eating, emotional eating, competition
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food entitlements
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land on which to grow food, employment to gain wages with which to purchase food, moral obligation to ensure that others have food, governmental responsibility to care for constituency
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gray zone
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don't have to follow normal rules, survival over ethical
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lumpen
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bottom of social class, not apart of class because can't participate
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methadone
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more addictive then heroin and has more difficult withdrawal
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deghnu
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this and milk are used for fattening because they are white and flow through the body
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socialization
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the process by which people acquire the skills they need to participate in wider society, interact appropriately and assume social roles and responsibilities
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enculturation
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the social processes through which children come to adopt the ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving considered appropriate for adults in their culture
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Which group is the second largest racial group and has the highest rate of HIV infection?
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african americans
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What is the primary food entitlement of industrialized nations?
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Wage employment
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Discontinuous societies aim to?
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Separate the role of children from adult.
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White guy addicts
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shoot heroin, muscle it, have been beaten down by society, no since of strength, the way not into it for the high just do it because junkies, more dangerous, abscesses.
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African Americans
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inject heroin into vein to get higher faster, part of drug culture, try to make high fast and enjoyable, higher risk of overdose
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ageism
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anti-aging products, access, physicians provide more detailed and responsive information to younger patients, few physicians choose geriatric, palliative, or end of life care.
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social clocks
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culturally specific times for life activities: reproduction, driving, career, sex, reading, retirement, marriage.
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disease
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an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions(medical)
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illness
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a state of poor health, synonym for disease(something you are experiencing)
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types of age
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social, chronological, biological
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age:social
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how you perform your age, dress and performance
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age:chronological
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your actual age
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age:biological
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your a appeared age by outside factors
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Hewlett
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Aka from Africa, Congo, fathers and infants
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Bourgois and Schonberg
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Right Dopefiend, Francisco
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Benedict
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Continuous and Discontinuous
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Goodlin/Lester
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eating disorders
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Film
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-Gulla people from South Carolina and Georgia, Mendi from Sierra Leone in Africa
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Continuous
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aging happens gradually, rather than having a sudden moment when you become an adult.
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Discontinuous
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where you are a child, and then suddenly you are an adult. the focus is on your status culturally not biologically.
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Childhood
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protected, vulnerable, obedient, submissive, play
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straight 18
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ban that seeks to prevent the recruitment and use of children under 18 in armed forces or groups and to bar the criminal prosecution of children for war crimes
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Rebecca Popene
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Azawagh people from Niger-Feeding Desire
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