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What is Mortality?

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State of being subject to death

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What is Diaspora?

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Dispersion of a group of people in countries across the world

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What is Life Expectancy?

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General number of years a society can age up to

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What is Urbanization?

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Growth of urban areas as a result of migration

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What is Demography?

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Study of human populations

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What is Urban-Drift?

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Process of making an area more urban

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What is Age Dependency?

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Breakdown of a country and how well its dependents can be taken care of

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What is Fertility?

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Ability to produce offspring

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What is Religion?

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System of communally shared beliefs oriented toward a supernatural realm

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What is Social Control?

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Set of rules in society that keeps individuals bound to standards

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What is Sacred?

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Anything regarded as part of the supernatural and not the ordinary world

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What is Ritual?

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A formal stylized procedure

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What is Profane?

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Anything regarded as part of the ordinary rather than the supernatural

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What is False Consciousness?

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People’s inability to recognize inequality, oppression, and exploitation in a capitalist society

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What is Alienation?

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When humans feel disconnected from some part of their society

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What is Capitalism?

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Economic system in which a country’s trade are controlled by private owners

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What is Social Cohesion?

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Strength of relationships and sense of solidarity among members of a community

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What is Patrilineal?

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Descent and inheritance through the father’s line

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What is Exogamy?

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Custom of marriage outside a community, clan, or tribe

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What is Matrilocal?

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Husband moves to live with the wife’s family

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What is Matrilineal?

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Descent and inheritance through the mother’s side

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What is Patrilocal?

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Wife moves to live with the husband’s family

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What is Endogamy?

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Custom of marriage outside one’s community, clan, or tribe

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What is Polygyny?

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Marriage of one woman to many men

25
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What is Adoption?

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Fact of legally taking another’s child and bring it up as one’s own

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What is Polygamy?

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Marriage of one man to many women

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What is Monogamy?

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Marriage of one man to one woman at a time

28
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What is Development?

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It is change which results in increased economic productivity and prosper

29
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What is Literacy?

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The ability to read or write/competency in a specific area

30
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What is Urban-drift?

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Movement from rural to urban centred areas

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What is Urbanization?

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The process of making an area more urban

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What is Emigration?

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Moving out of a country

33
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What is Trade deficit?

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When a country’s imports exceed their exports

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What is Agriculture?

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Practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals

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What is Tourism?

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A social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries outside their usual environment for personal/professional purposes

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What is Migration?

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The movement of people from one place to another

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What is Population?

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The total number of people inhabiting an area

38
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What is Class?

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Consist of people who share a common relationship to the means of production

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What is Intergenerational Mobility?

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Movement up or down the hierarchy by family members from one generation to the next

40
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What is Relative poverty?

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Standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society are judged as being disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole

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What is Stratification?

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Inequality of an entire categories of people who have different access to social rewards

42
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What is Absolute poverty?

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Minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live

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What is Social Inequality?

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Condition of society in which members have different amounts of wealth, prestige or power

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What is Social Mobility?

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One’s ability to move from one status to another in a social hierarchy

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What is Achieved status?

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Status one is able to attain through hard work

46
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What is Ethnocentrism?

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Judging another culture by the standard of one’s own

47
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What is Privilege?

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A special right, advantage available to a particular person

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