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authority
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power that people consider legitimate, as rightly exercized over them.
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charisma
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an outstanding magnetic personality.
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coercion
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power that people do not accept as rightly exercized over them.
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democracy
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a system of government from which authority derives from the people
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dictatorship
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a form of government which power has been siezed by an individual.
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direct democracy
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a form of democracy in which the eligible voters meet together to discuss issues and make their decisions.
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monarchy
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headed by a king or queen.
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oligarchy
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a form of government which power is held by a small groop of people.
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rational legal authority
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authority based on law or writen rules and regulations.
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totalitarianism
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a form of government that exerts almost total control over people.
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voler apathy
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half of the eligible voters do not vote.
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descent
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process of tracing kinship
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blended family
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a family whose members were once part of other families.
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cohabitation
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unmaried couples living together in a sexual relation ship.
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empty nest
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maried couples situation after the last child has left home.
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family
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two or more people who consider themselves by blood or marriage or adoption.
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family of orientation
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family in which a person grows up.
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incest
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sexual relations between specified relatives such as brother sister parents children.
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machismo
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emphasis on male strength and dominance
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polygyny
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a form of marriage in which men have more than one wife.
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nuclear family
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the family consisting of a husband and wife and child/ children
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sandwich generation
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ages 40-55 and they take care of their parents.
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serial fatherhood
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have many childern with many diffrent wemon after he maries them.
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church
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a moral comunity of belivers
highly organized group with sedate worship services and little emphasis on personal conversion |
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cult
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a new religion with followers whose teachings and practices put it at odds with a dominant culture and religion.
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denomination
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a "brand name" within a major religion
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ecclesia
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a religuous group so integrated into the dominant cultre that it is difficult to tell where one begins and the other leaves off
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evangelism
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an attempt to win converts
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animism
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the belief that all objects in the world have spirits, some of which are dangeruous and must be outwitted
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education
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a formal system of teaching knowledge, values, and skills
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functional illiteracy
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a highgraduate who has trouble with basic reading and writing
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gate keeping
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the process by which education opens and closes the doors of opportunity
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latent function
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unintended beneficial consequences of peoples' actions
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grade inflation
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higher grades given on same work; grade based on improvment
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social promontion
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passing students on to the next grade even though they have not mastered their basic materials.
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evangelism
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ecclesia
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fundumentalism
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the belief that true religion is threatened by modernism and its values and that the faith originally practiced should be restored
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monotheism
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the belief that there is only one god
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polytheism
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the belief that there are many gods
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reincarnation
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the return of the soul (or self) after death in a different form
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religious experience
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a sudden awareness of the supernatural or a feeling of coming in contact with god
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sect
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a religious group larger than a cult that still feels substantial hostility from and toward society
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secularrization for religion
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the replacement of a religion's spiritual or otherworldly concerns with concerns for this world
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state religion
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a gov't sponsored religion
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fad
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a temporary pattern of behavior that catches peoples' attention
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fashion
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catches peoples' behavior and lasts longer than a fad
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mass hysteria
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an imagined threat that causes physical symptoms among a large number of people.
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milling
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a crowd standing or walking around as they talk excitedly about some event.
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minimax strategy
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term for the efforts people make to minimize their cost and maximize their rewards.
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moral panic
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a theory that groups a large group of people that some evil thretins the well bing of society followed by hostility, sometimes violence, toward those thought responsible.
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proactive social movement
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social movement that promotes some social change.
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propaganda
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the presentation of information in the atempt to influence people.
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public
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a dispersed group of people relevant to a social movement
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riot
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violent crowd behavior directed at property and people.
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rumor
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unfounded info spread among people.
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urban legend
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a story with an ironic twist that sounds realistic but is false.
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cultural lag
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human behavior lagging behind technological inovations.
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diffusion
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the spread of an invention or discovery from one area to another.
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discovery
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a new way of seeing reality.
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invention
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the combination of existing elements and materials to form new ones
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technology
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the skills and procedures necessary to make and use tools
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alternative medicine
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madical treatment other than that of standard western medicine.
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defensive medicine
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medical practices not done for patients benifits but inorder to protect the physician from malpractice suites.
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epidemiology
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the study of disease and disability paterns.
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euthanasia
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mercy killing of the elderly and sick.
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health
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a human condition measured by four components: physical, mental, social, spiritual
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medicalization
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a transformation something into a matter to be treated by physicans.
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medicine
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one of the major social institutions that sociologist study; societys organized ways of dealing with sickness and injury.
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sick role
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a social role that excuses people from normal obligations because, they are sick or injured while at the same time expecting them to seek competent help and cooperate in getting well.
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