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personality |
a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling. ex. someone with a happy personality tends to act happy |
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organized crime |
a business supplying illegal goods or services. ex al cappone during the prohibition era |
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caste and class system |
caste system- a social stratification based on ascription, or birth ex. india consists of four major castes, your caste determines a persons direction class system- social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement ex. united states meritocracy- social stratification base on personal merit |
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matriarchy & patriarchy |
matriarchy- a form of social organization in which females dominate males ex. rarely found in human history, seen with some animals though, like lions or bears patriarchy a form of social organization in which males dominate females. ex. many african countries like Sierre Leone are male dominated countries |
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segregation |
the physical and social separation of categories of people ex. black and white schools |
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monopoly |
the domination of a market by a single producer ex. john rockefeller and the standard oil company dominated the oil industry in the early 1900s |
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authority |
power that people perceive as legitimate rather than coercive ex. believe that police have authority |
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government |
a formal organization that directs the political life of a society ex. u.s. has a democracy |
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monarchy |
a political system in which a single family rules from generation to generation ex. kings and queens in england |
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democracy |
a political system that gives power to the people as a whole ex. ancient greece, athens |
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terrorism |
to acts of violence or the threat of violence used as a political strategy by an individual or group ex. Al quida |
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extended and nuclear families |
nuclear family- a family composed of one or two parents and their children ex. just parents and children extended family- a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin ex. cousins, uncles, aunts |
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monogamy and polygamy |
monogamy- marriage that unites two partners ex. catholic marriages polygamy- marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses ex. found in islamic nations, can allow up to four wives |
