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65 Cards in this Set
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What it monogamy?
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-single spouse system of marriage
-most common practice |
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What is the neolocal arrangement?
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-where a couple sets up a residence by themsevles
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What is the patrilocal arrangement?
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-when a couple moves in or around the groom's family
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What is the matrilocal arrangement?
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-when the couple moves in or around the bride's family
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What is sororal ploygyny?
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-one male married to two or more females that are sisters
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What is the avuncolocar arrangement?
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-when the couple moves in or close to the uncle
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What is the matri-patrilocal arrangement?
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-when the couple moves in with the bride's family than after giving birth they move in with the groom's family
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What is descent's inheritance?
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-it is the relatives that you relate to
-how goods are passed down from generation to generation |
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What is the lineal/bilateral system?
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-when things are traced through male and female lines
-allowed to socialize with both sides of the family |
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What is fraternal polyanory?
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-one female married to two or more brothers
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How does culture change?
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-material culture changes fast and without resistance
-non-material culture changes slow and with resistance |
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What is cultural lag?
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-the difference in time between material culture objects and its non-material components
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What is material culture?
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-physical, tangible objects in our culture
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What are the characteristics of culture?
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-learned and shared
-transmitted from generation to generation -human nature is what we make of it and it depends on where we live |
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What is culture?
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-all shared products of society
-all things humans give meaning to |
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What are the positive sanctions of social control?
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-rewards such as promotion or candy
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What are the characteristics of norms?
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-we adher to them so much that we do not know that they exsist until someone breaks one
-they tell use what we can and cannot do -some apply to all while others do not |
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What are norms?
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rule that define how people ought to think, feel, and know
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What is cenogamy?
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-two or more males married to two or more females
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What is family of procreation
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-the family that you make when you get married
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What is family of orientation?
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-they family that you were born in
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What is the matrilineal system?
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-things are traced through the female lines
-males do not associate with family after marriage |
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What are the negative sanctions of social control?
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-punishments of vilolations such as a speeding ticket
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What is matriacrhal authority?
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-females have power
-practiced in lower class |
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What ispatriarchal authority?
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-males have power
-praticed in upper class and most commonly practiced |
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What is egalitarim authority?
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-the power is shared between the male and female
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What is exogamy?
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-choosing a spouse from outside your culturally shared group
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What is the one universal exogamous?
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-being against marriage and sexual intercouse with close family
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What is endogamy?
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-choosing a spouse within culturally defined group
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What is cross cousins?
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-mother's brother's children marry father's brother's children
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What is filiocenteie?
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-children centered society
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What is polygamy?
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-multi spouse system
-found where labor of women and children is valuable -most commonly practiced |
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What is the patrilineal system?
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-things are traced through the male line
-female do not associate with family after marriage -most commonly practiced |
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What is homogamy?
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-choosing a mate with similar characteristics
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What is non material culture?
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-nonphysical and intangible objects such as ideas
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What is polyanory?
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one female married to two or more males
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What is the family composed of?
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-nuclear=husband, wife, and unmarried children
elementary=children have to be present -extended=several generations living close to one another |
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What are the agents of a family?
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-gets you throught the first five years of your life
all families sacrifice for their kids because they want their lives to be better |
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What is language?
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system of verbal and writter symbols with rules to put them together
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What are the charateristics of language?
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-humans are only animals that have written language
-handed down throught generation to generation -allow to move throught here and now -allows us to share past and future |
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What are the physical proximites?
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-18in-3ft. talking one on one
-up to 12ft. formal setting -beyond 12ft. public zone |
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What is social control?
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ensures that indidviduals adhere to the rules
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What is learned culture?
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-the socialization process
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What is cultural variation?
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culture of every society is unique containing combination of cultural items found in no other area
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What are the reasons we are ethoncentric?
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-encouraged to be
-take culture for granted -have little understanding for other cultures |
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What is ethnocentrism?
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-judge other cultures with our own standards
-our own way of thinking is superior to others |
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What are positives of ethnocentrism?
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-promotes group unity and natualism
-henders change which might harm the country |
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Human success is based on...
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-our abilty to alter our environment
-our ability to creat social form |
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What are the negatives of ethnocentrism?
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-hinders change which might be benefical
-created barriers between countries |
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What are the continum of norms?
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-folkway=tradional ways of thinking
-more=moral significance |
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What are the relationships between culture and language?
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-sapir whopn hypthesis= language shapes cultures
-others think that culture shapes language |
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What are characteristics of body language?
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-facial expressions are same throughout cultures while other body language is not
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What are the agents of socialization?
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family, school, peer groups, mass media
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What are the agents of schools?
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-formal curriculum= math and science
-hidden curriculum= value and behaviors that mold students |
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What did Melven Kohn discover?
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-lower classed teach obedience and are more likely to physically punish
-middle class teach self reliance and are less likely to physically punish -found that work environment influences factors |
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What are the agents of mass media?
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-most powerful is tv
-tv destorts reality and promotes violence -promotes racism |
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What are the characteristics of homogamy?
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age, race, education, nearness, social class,religion
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What is the mating gradient?
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males marry below them while females marry above them
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What are the characteristics of socialization?
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-begins at birth
-first five years are the most important -learns morals and develops personality |
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What personality defects effected Goldfarb's kids?
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less motivated, cold nature, lower iq, more aggressive
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What is Self?
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an individual's conspuences of their personal identity
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What are the characteristics of self?
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qualities of our charcter that change through interaction with others
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What does GH Mead believe?
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-I is spontanous
-ME is socialized part -without I we would be boring -without Me we would not interact socially |
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The family is...
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-most basic, ancient unit of society
-believed that society cannot exist without it |
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What is pre marital sexuality for men and women?
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24.8 for women and 27.1 for men
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