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Marriage Practice: With group

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Endogamy ex. Both are jewish

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Marriage Practice: Outside the group

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Exogamy

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Marriage Practice: single spouses

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Monogamy/ serial monogamy - more than 1 but through divorxe

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Marriage: Polygyny

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1 man many wives ( sign of wealth)

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Marriage: Polyandry

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1 Woman many men ( sharing land )

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Marriaye exchange: Bride service

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Groom works for brides family (dad gets to know the guy)

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Marriage exchange: Bride wealth/groom

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An exchange from the groom or grooms family to the brides (compensation)/ opposite sides marry becuz not wealthy

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Marriage exchange: Dowry

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Wealth given to bride from her family

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Descent

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Common ancestry ( blood marriage adoption)

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Tracing descent (3 ways): Bilateral

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Empahsis on both sides of the family (father and son very important)

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Descent: lineage

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Knows all ancestors back to first ancestor and can recite these ancestor’s

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Descent: Clan

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Claim to be descended from the same ancestor but cannot recite the ancestors ( ex. family names)

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Kinship diagram

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Triangles( male) Circle (female) circles….. = (means married to)…. | (means descended from) [ (means sibling)

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Tracing descent (3 ways ): Unlineal

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Emphasizes ties to one side of the family

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Tracing descent (3 ways): Patrilineal ( also unilineal)

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Ties to father( not related to children’s spouse family; but is related to spouse)

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Unlineal descent: Matrilineal

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Ties to mother ( her brother takes care of children)

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Difference between sex and gender

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Sex is a biological distinction and Gender is a social distinction

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How do males and females differ biologically?

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Xx and xy chromosome

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Is sexual behavior universal?

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Yes, its a biological drive in all humans (physical actof production).

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Sexual taboo?

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Forbidden to have sex withfamily members and sex in nuclear family is taboo

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How many genders are there ?

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Two(male and female) in the u.s., others have gender crossing - when one adopt roles of opposite sex.

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When did the 1st and 2nd wave of feminism begin?

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1840s - 1st rights with citizenship (voting)

1960’s and 70’s - view of gender

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Beliefe that males are biologically superior to females?

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Sexism

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What is it called when males socially dominate females?

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Patriarchy

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How are the ideas of gender institutionalized?

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Female is associated with marriage and family because of natural ability to birth snd lactate, gender as in referring to cultural roles assigned to male /Female. Toys ?

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Whst is the taxonomic binomiwk name for humans

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Homo sapiens

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How many chromosomes do humans have?

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46

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Is race a biologically useful category among humans?

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No Racial labels Are used to refer to culture rather than Physical differences between the group

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Can we divide humans into discrete racial groups?

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No. This highlights the way That people can downplay Any wide range of physical and cultural attributes, Either to make an identity for themselves or To assign an identity to others

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How is the idea of race perpetuated in the u.s.?

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Race categories in the census Based on color and geography and language( white black hispanic native asian other

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Racism

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Prejudice on the basis of race. Belief that 1 perceived group is biologically superior to another perceived group

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Prejudice

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Generalizations about groups.

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Discrimination

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Policies and practices that harm a group and its members

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Segregation

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Action/state of setting some1 or something apart from other people or things/ being set apart

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Ethnicity

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A social category based on a common cultural heritage

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Genocide

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The physical extermination of an entire people on the basis of race

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What do we call rwligious grouos that advocate strict literal interpretation s of sacred texts?

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Fundamentalist

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Two types of religious specialists ?

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Priest(full time, indirect communication ) and shaman ( part time, direct communication with spirits)

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Key details of prophet mohammeds life?

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Gabriel talked to him, after he went out on an journey to correct jews and christans. He fled Meccah in 622ce from there he went to medina. Peacefully surrender?

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Five pillars

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Charity
Pilgrimage(hajj)
Prayer
Faith
Fasting( -ramadan)
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Origin of shi ites?

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Ali (muhammad cousin)

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Origin of sunni?

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Counsil/ elders

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Who is Allah

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God same god as Christian.

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Muslim and Islam

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Muslim is people

Islam is religion

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What does Quran mean?

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Recitation ( resiting ) sacred text

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What does Hijra mean?

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Pilgrimage or migration from meccah to medina

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What does buddhism call the path to spiritual enlightenment?

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8 fold path

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What are the 4 noble truths to existence?

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Life is suffering, suffering from desire,rid suffering when rid of desire, to end both follow the 8 fold path

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What is Tao?

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The way (essence)

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Main emphasis of Confucianism?

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Virtue(Te)

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Syncretism

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the reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief.(roman catholic mission) examples idk

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Difference between globalization an transnationalism?

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transnationalism is the term of choice when referring, for example, to the migration of nationals across the borders of one or more nations.4In many instances transnationalism becomes an agent of globalization. Globalization is the accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems.1Often synonymous with Transnationalism: extending or going beyond national boundaries2, globalization involves the diffusion or exchange of custom, media, technology, finance, and ideas through specific points of departure and arrival and works to promote change and development in our world in which nations and people have become increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent.

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