Intro To Sociology:10, 13

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sacred

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set as extraordinary, inspiring, awe and reverance

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faith

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belief based on conviction rather that scientific evidence

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profane

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included as an ordinary part of everyday life

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fundamentalism

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a conservative religious doctrine that opposes intellectualism and worldly accommodation in favor of restoring traditional other worldly religion

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civil religion

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a quasi-religious loyalty binding individuals in a basic secular society

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secularism

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historical decline in the importance of supernatural and sacred

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religiosity

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importance of religion in a persons life

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animism

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belief that elements of the natural world are conscious life forms that effect humanity

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cult

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religious organization that is largely outside a society's cultural traditions

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charisma

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extraordinary personal qualities that can infuse people with emotion and turn them into followers

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sect

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religious organization that stands apart from the larger society

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denomination

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church, independent of the state, that recognizes religious pluralism

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state church

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church formally linked to the state

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church

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religious organization that is well integrated into the larger society

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liberation theology

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combining of christian principles with political activism, often marxist is in character

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Durkheims 3 major functions of religion that contribute to operation of society

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Social Cohesion, SOcial control, Providing meaning and purpose

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totem

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object in natural world collectively defined as sacred

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cohabitation

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sharing of a household by an unmarried couple

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family violence

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emotional, physical, or sexual abuses of one family member by another

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blended family

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children and some biological parents and step parents

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causes of divorce

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individualism on the rise, romantic love fades, women less dependent on men, todays marriages are stressful, divorce is acceptable, legally is easy

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machismo

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strength, daring, sexual conquest

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homogamy

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marriage between people of the same social characteristics

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functions of the family

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socialization, regulation of sexual activity, social placement, material emotional security

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bilateral descent

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tracing descent through both men and women

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matrilineal descent

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define only the mothers side as kin, passes property onto the daughter

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patrilineal descent

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traces kinship through the male, passes property to sons

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incest taboo

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norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives

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descent

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system where members of a society trace kinship over generations

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neolocality

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couple lives apart from both sets of parents

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matrilocality

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couple lives near the wife's family

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patrilocality

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couple lives near the husband's family

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polyandry

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woman with two or more men

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polygyny

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man with two or more women

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polygamy

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marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses

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monogamy

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marriage that is just two partners

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exogamy

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marriage between people of different social categories

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endogamy

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marriage between people of the same social category

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nuclear family

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family composed of one or two parents and their children

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extended family

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family composed of family, children, and their kin

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marriage

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legal relationships, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and child bearing

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kinship

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social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption

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family

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social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including all children.

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radical feminism

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society needs to eliminate gender itself

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socialist feminism

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family form fostered by capitalist, must change in order to replace domestic slavery

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liberal feminism

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individual should be free to develop their own talents and pursue their own interests, should advance according to individual merit

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basic feminist ideas

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working to increase equality, expanding human choice, elimination gender strat., ending sexual violence, and promoting sexual freedom

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feminism

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the support of equality for women and men in opposition to patriarchy or sexism

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quid pro quo (sexual harassment)

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one thing in exchange for another

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sexual harassment

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comments, gestures, or physical contact of sexual nature that is deliberate and unwelcome

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minority

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category of ppl distinguished by physical or cultural difference by society sets apart and subordinates

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intersection theory

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analysis of the interplay of race, class, and gender which often results multiple dimensions of disadvantage

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gender roles (sex roles)

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attitudes and activities that society links to each sex

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institutional sexism

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women highly concentrate low paying jobs

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patriarchy

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men dominate women

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matriarchy

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females dominate men

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gender stratification

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unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women