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24 Cards in this Set
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Role
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-the culturally assigned behaviors and expectations for a person's social position.
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Status
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-a person's position in society.
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Ascribed Status
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-the status a person is given at birth and over which that person has no control.
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Achieved Status
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-a status position that is earned through an individual's skills, actions, and accomplishments.
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Descent Group
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-a group of people who share identity and come from a common ancestor.
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Lineage
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-a unilineal descent group that traces its consanguineal relatives back to a common ancestor.
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Patrilineage
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-a unilineal descent group passed on through males and traced to a common male ancestor.
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Agnates
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-members of a patrilineage.
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Matrilineage (also called Uterine Descent Group)
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-a unilineal descent group with membership passed on through females and traced to a common female ancestor.
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Bilateral Descent
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-descent that is traced equally through both mother and father.
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Kindred
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-a term associated with bilateral descent in which relatives calculate their degree of relationship to Ego. In a kindred, only siblings share the exact same set of relatives.
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Double Descent
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-a descent system with two seperate lines of descent that are both recognized at the same time.
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Ambilineal Descent
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-a unilineal descent system in which some members of the society acquire and pass on descent affiliation through females, whereas others do so through males.
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Clan
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-a descent group consisting of two or more lineages that trace their origin to a mythical ancestor.
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Totem
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-mythical ancestor or symbol of a clan.
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Phratry
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-a group of two or more clans that have a tie to one another, often based on a historical relationship; obligations and rights are expected b/w clans in this relationship.
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Moiety
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-an association that divides a society in half. Moiety affiliation that divides a society in half. Moiety affiliation is inherited unilineally and carries obligations to other members.
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Segmentary Lineage
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-a descent group consisting of sublineage sets.
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Sodality
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-a group that crosscuts a society and whose membership based on common interest rather than kinship or residence.
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Cross-Cousin
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-ego's mother's brother's child and father's sister's child.
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Parallel-cousin
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-ego's mother's sister's child and father's brother's child.
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Kinship term
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-a word that designates a social relationship b/w individuals who are related by blood or marriage.
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Bifurcate
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-the distinction w/in kinship systems where father's side and mother's side of the family are labeled and treated differently, splitting mother's side of the family from father's side of the family.
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Fictive Kin
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-unrelated family friends who are addressed by kin terms.
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