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personality
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sum total of behavior, attitudes, beliefs and values that are characteristic of an individual.
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Heredity
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transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children
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instinct
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unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern.
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Sociobiology
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systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior
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Aptitude
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capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
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feral children
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wild or untamed children.
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socialization
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interactive process through which individuals learn the basic skills, beliefs and behavior patterns of society.
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I
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unsocialized , spontaneous, self-interested component of the personality and self-identity.
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Me
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part of the identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society; the socialized self.
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peer group
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Primary group composed of individual of roughly equal age and social characteristics
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Mass media
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newspapers, magazines, books, television, radio, films and other forms of communication that reach large audiences without personal contact between the individual sending the information and those receiving it
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Adolescence
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Period between the normal onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood
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Puberty
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Physical material that makes individual capable of sexual reproduction
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Family
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Group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who live together and share economic resources.
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Nuclear family
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Family form that consists of one or both parents and their children
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Kinship
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Network of people who are related by marriage, birth or adoption.
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Marriage
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Set of norms that specify the ways in which family structure should be organized.
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polygamy
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Marriage with multiple partners.
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monogamy
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Marriage of one man to one woman .
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patrilocality
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This residential pattern in which a newly married couple is expected to live with or near the house husbands parents
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matrilocality
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Residential pattern in which a newly married couple are expected to live near or with the wife.
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bilocality
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Residential pattern in which a newly married couple is allowed to choose whether they will live with the husband's parents or the wife's parents.
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heterogamy
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Tendency for individuals to marry people who have social characteristics different from their own
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homogamy
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Tendency for individuals to marry people who have social characteristics similar to their own
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Sandwhich generation
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Americans caught between the needs of their children and their aging parents
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