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Status

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A persons position, or standing in society

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Achieved status

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Class

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Ascribed status

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Race, ethnicity, gender, and caste

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Race

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Organizes people into groups based on physical traits

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Naturalization

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Social processes through which something, such as race, becomes the natural order of things

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Racialization

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The social, economic and political processes of transforming populations into races and creating racial meaning

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Race

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Recent form of social inequality
Unequal meeting of two formerly separate groups through colonization, slavery, and other large group movements
Not a biological reality : culturally constructed

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Diaspora population

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A dispersed group living outside their original homeland

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Caste system maintained though

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Marriages

Rituals

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How are males and females different

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Sex and gender

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Sex

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The reproductive form and function of the body

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Gender

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The cultural expectations of how males and females should behave

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Gender pluralism

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The existence within a culture of multiple categories of feminity , masculinity , and androgyny that are tolerated and legitimate

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Third genders

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Some cultures permit the expression of varied forms of sexual orientation, for example the berdache

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What is kinship

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Sense of being related to a person

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Kinship system

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The social system that organizes people in families based on descent and marriage

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Clan

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A group of relatives who claim to 6e descended from a single ancestor

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Descent

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Kinship created through birth into a particular group

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Why do people get married

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Love
Sex
Children

20
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Family versus household

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Family - a group of people who consider themselves related by kinship
Household - a person or persons who live together and may or may not be related by kinship

21
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Nuclear household

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Found among foragers

22
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Extended household

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Related to fixed economic base/property

23
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Kinds of descent

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Unilineal and bilineal

24
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Unilineal descent

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Basis of kinship in 60 percent of the worlds culture

25
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Bilineal descent

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Traced equally from both parents

Married couples live away from parents

26
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Two major types of unilineal descent

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Patrilineal - male line

Matrilineal - female line

27
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Genealogical amnesia

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Process of forgetting whole groups of relatives usually 6ecause they are not currently significant in social life

28
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Types of marriage

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Monogamy - two people
Polygamy - more than two people
Polygyny - one man and more than one woman
Polyandry - one woman and more than one man

29
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Religion

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A symbolic system that is socially enacted through rituals and other aspects of social life

30
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Basic characteristics shared by all religion

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Belief in things more powerful then humans
Beliefs and behaviors surround, support and promote the acceptance that things ,ore poweedul than humans actually exist
Symbols make these beliefs and behaviors see, intense and genuine
Social settings that people share while experiencing the power of these symbols

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Fundamentalism

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Religious movement that advocates a return to fundamental or traditional principles

32
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How does test author try to understand suicide bombers

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It’s a holy struggle for God

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What’s sacred space

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A holy place that is sacred to a specific religious group

34
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What forms does religion take

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Clan spirits and identities
Totemism
Shamanism
Atheism
World religions
Polytheism and monotheism
Ritual symbols that reinforce social order
35
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Largest world religions

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Christian and Islam

36
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What is magic

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An explanatory system of causation does not folllow naturalistic explanations

37
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Kinship structure of Azande

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They live in clans

38
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Traditional marriage in Azande

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Marriages were contracted through the exchange of bridewealth which consisted of iron spears

39
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Difference between witchcraft and sorcery among Azande

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They believe misfortune , death, and complications of life are witchcraft and sorcery is like through physical acts

40
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What is an Oracle

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Play a role in revealing who is a witch and important for ascertaining the future and hidden things of the present

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