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28 Cards in this Set
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credential societies
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employers use diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for a job.
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manifest functions
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the positive things that people intend their actions to accomplish
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latent functions
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positive consequences not intended
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Family
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consists of people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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Family of orientation
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the family in which someone grows up in
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Family of procreation
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the family formed when a couple has their first child
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mainstreaming
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schools try to incorporate students with disabiltiies into regular school activities
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marriage
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a group's approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual
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gatekeeping
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determining which people will enter what job
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Mate selection
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each human group establishes norms to govern who marries whom
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tracking
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sorting students into different programs on the basis of real or perceived abilities
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hidden curriculum
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the unwritten rules of behavior and attitudes that schools teach in addition to formal curriculum
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Endogamy
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people should marry within their own group
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exogamy
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people should marry outside their group
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the rist research
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demonstarted how the labels assigned by teachers end up acting as self-fulfilling prophecies
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system of descent
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the way people trace kinship over generations
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george farkas
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even though they had the same test scores, girls and Asians averaged higher course grades than boys and others
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bilateral system
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being related to both the mother's and father's side
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patrilineal system
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descent is only traced to father's side
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matrilineal system
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descent is traced only to mother's side
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functionalists
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believe the family is universal because it fulfills basic needs
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conflict theorists
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believe within the family there is a struggle over scarce resources.
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romantic love
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people being sexually attracted to one another and idealizing the other
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homogamy
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the tendency of people with similar characteristics to marrry one another
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empty nest
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when the last child leaves home, and the husband and wife are left
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cohabitation
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adults living together in a sexual relationship without being married
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the sandwich generation
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people who are responsible for both their kids and their aging parents
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serial fatherhood
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a divorced father tends to maintain high contact with his kids during the first year or two after the divorce
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