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72 Cards in this Set
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sexual script
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a set of ideas and practices that answer the basic questions about sex
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sexuality
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refers to the identities we construct that are often based on our sexual conduct
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sex
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refers to one's physiology
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gender
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refers to the social and cultural meanings associated with being male or female
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sexual conduct
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the things people do from which they derive sexual meanings
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sexual behavior
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we learn it from the people and institutions and ideas around us; any behavior that brings sexual pleasure or release
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sexual socialization
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our understanding of our culture's sexual scrips begins to cohere into a preference
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sexual identity
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an identity that is organized by the gender of the person to whom we are sexually attracted
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heterosexuality
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sexual behavior between people of different genders, the most common sexual identity, considered normal
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homosexuality
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refers to sexual desires or behaviors with members of one's own gender, comes from greek word homo
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bisexuality
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a sexual identity organized aroung attraction to both men and women
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partialism
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people experience erotic attraction to specific body parts
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fetishism
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erotic attraction to objects that represent sexual behavior
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sadomasochism
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aroused by the presence of real or imagined violence and power dynamics
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exhibitionism
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aroused only when having sex in public
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voyeurism
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aroused by watching others having sex
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pedophilia
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the erotic attraction to children who may be either or both genders
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asexual
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no sexual desire to anyone
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european
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four of the most famous sex researchers at the 19th century
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masculinization of sex
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the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, the increased attention to orgasm, increased numbers of sexual partners, the interest in sexual experimentation adn the seperation of sexual behavior from love
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hooking up
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a sexual encounter which may nor may not include sexual intercourse, usually occuring on only one occasion between two people who are strangers or brief acquaintances
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23% of women and 4% of men
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state that they have been forced to have sex against their will
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Homophobia
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an attitude, a socially approved dislike of gay men and lesbians the presumption that they are inferior to straight people
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Heterosexism
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the institutionally based inequality that may derive from homophobia, more pervasive
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sex tourism
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represents the globilization of prostitution
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pornography
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a visual or written depiction of sexual activity with no remeeming social value
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Berl Kutchinsky
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observed the effects of legalizing pornography
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chronological age
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a person's age determined by the actual date of birth
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functional age
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a set of observable characteristics adn attributes that are used to categorizw people into different age cohorts
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age cohort
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a group of people who are born within a specific time period and therefore assumed to share both chronological and functional characteristics
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gerontology
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scientific study of the biological, psychological, and sociological phenomena associated with old age and aging
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life span
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all societies divided the life span into stages, seasons, or age groups
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age norms
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distinctive cultural values, pursuits, adn pastimes that are culturally prescibed for each age cohort
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life expectancy
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the average number of years that people born in a certain year could expect to live
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adolescence
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a life stage between childhood and adulthood
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twixters
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people in their twenties still culturally adolescent: living with parents, having fun
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sandwich generation
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caring for dependent children and aging parents at the same time
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ageism
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differential treatment based on age
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Robert Butler
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coined the term ageism
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social security
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improved the financial situation of the elderly, retired workers receive a monthly stipend based on how much they contributed to the program through their lives
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pension
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a monthly stipend for those who have worked for the same employer for a specified number of years
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has one of the lowest pension benefits of all wealthy countries
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United States
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retirement
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mark of social status
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baby boomers
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the biggest age cohort in history-77 million 1945-1964
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generation x
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generation that followed the baby boom cohort called baby busters 1945-1954
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generation y
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three times the size of generation x; 1975-1995 baby boomlet
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family
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the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of 2 parents rearing their children
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kinship systems
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cultural forms that locate individuals in the culture by reference to their families
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matrilineal
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through your mother's side of the family
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patrilineal
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through your father's side of the family
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bilineal
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through both your parents sides
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legitimacy
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to ensure that men know what children they have produced
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monogamy
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marriage between two people, the most common
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pologamy
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marriage between three or more people
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polygyny
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most common form of pologamy, one man with two or more women
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polyandry
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one woman marrying 2 or men
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group marriage
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2 or more men marrying 2 or more women with children born to the union
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exogamy
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must marry or have sex with people outside of family
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family of origin
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the family you are born into
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family of procreation
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the family you choose to belong to in order to reproduce
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extended family
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2 or 3 generations lived under the same roof or at least in the same compound
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companionate marriage
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individuals choose their marriage partners based on emotional ties and love
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fictive kinship
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stretching the boundaries of kinship to include nonblood relations, friends, neighbors, and co workers
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chinese and japanese families
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more hierarchial
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multigenerational households
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adults of more than one generation sharing domestic space
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cohabitation
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unmarried people in a romantic relationship living in the same residence
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nonmarital sex
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sex that is not related to marriage
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miscegenation
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interracial marriage
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intimate partner violence
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represents violence, lethal or non lethal, experienced by a spouse, ex spouse, or cohabiting partner
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alexis de tocqueville
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spoke of the family as a haven in a heartless world
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intergenerational violence
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violence between generations such as parents to children and children to parents
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intragenerational violence
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violence within the same generation or sibling violence
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