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30 Cards in this Set
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primary sex characteristics
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anatomical traits essential to reproduction.
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secondary sex characteristics
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are traits used to distinguish one sex from another. Physical traits, breast development, quality of voice ect
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Gender
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a social distinction based on culturally conceived and learned ideals about appropriate appearance, behavior, and mental and emotional characteristics for males and females
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gender-polarization
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Organization of every aspect of life around male-female ideas.
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Commericialization of gender ideals
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the process of introducing products to the market by using advertising and sales campaigns that draw on socially constructed standards of masculinity and feminity
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structural constraints
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the established and customary rules, policies, and day-to-day practices that affect a person's life chances
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sexism
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the belief that one sex is innately superior to another, justifying unequal treatment of the sexes
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feminism
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a perspective that advocates equality between women and men
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ethgender
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a social category that comibines sex, gender, race, and ethnicity
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economic system
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a socially created institution that coordinates human activity in the effort to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services
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post-industrial society
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the modern industrial economy was replaced by an economy based on the creation of information and delivery of services rather than the production of goods
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charismatic authority
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Ex: Hitler
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legal-rational authority
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Ex: modern politicians
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traditional authority
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Ex: cheif, king, queen
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power elite
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those few people who occupy such lofty positions in the social structure of leading institutions that their decisions have consequences affecting millions of people worldwide
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pluralistic model
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views politics as an arena of compromise, alliances, and negotiation, among many competing and different special interest groups, and power as something that is dispersed among those groups
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caregiver burden
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the extent to which caregivers beleive that their emotional balance, physical health, social life, and financial status suffers because of their cargiver role
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schooling
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a program of formal systematic instruction that takes place primarily in classrooms but also includes extracurricular activities and out-of-classroom assignments
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formal education
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a systematic, purposeful, planned effort intended to impart specific skills and modes of thought
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informal education
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education that occurs in a spontaneous unplanned way
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social change
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any significant alteration, modification, or transformation in the organization and operation of social life.
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tipping points
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situations in which a previously rare event, response, or opinion becomes dramatically more common
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global interdependence
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when one country's problems become part of a large global situation
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globalization
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the ever-increasing flow of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture across political borders.
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Mcdonaldization
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a process where the principles of the fast-food industry govern other sectors of the economy, society, and the world
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information explosion
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an unprecedented increase in the amount of stored and transmitted data and messages in all media
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cultural base
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the number of existing innovations, which forms the basis for further inventions
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cultural lag
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the portion of nonmaterial culture that adjusts to material innovations
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technological determinist
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someone who believes that human beings have no free will and are controlled entirely by their material innovations
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paradigm
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the widely accepted theories and concepts in a particular field of study
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