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35 Cards in this Set
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________ is the systematic study of human societies.
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Sociology
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________ refers to people who live within some territory and share many patterns of behavior.
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Society
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_______ is a way of life including widespread values (about what is good and bad), beliefs (about what is true), and behavior (what people do every day).
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Culture
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_____________is a society’s system of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy.
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Social Stratification
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_________ are categories of people who have similar access to resources and opportunities.
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Social Classes
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_________ are skills, values, attitudes, and schooling that increases a person’s chances of success.
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cultural capital
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______ is a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that society defines as important.
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Race
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______ is a shared cultural heritage, which typically involves common ancestor, language, and religion.
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Ethnicity
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_______ is the systematic killing of one category of people by another.
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Genocide
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________ is the physical and social separation of categories of people.
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Segregation
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_______ is the personal traits and life chances that a society links to being females or males.
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Gender
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_________ is the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women.
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Gender Stratification
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_________ (the rule of fathers) is a social pattern in which males dominate females.
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Patriarchy
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_______ is a social pattern in which females dominate males.
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Matriarchy
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______ are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.
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Norms
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_____ are norms formally created through a society’s political system.
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Law
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_________defines the legal rights and relationships involving individuals and business.
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Civil Law
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_________defines people’s responsibilities to uphold public order.
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Criminal Law
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_______ is behavior that causes injury to people or damage to property.
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Violence
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________ involves the unlawful, intentional killing of one person by another.
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Murder
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__________ involves the unlawful, unintentional killing of one person by another.
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Manslaughter
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__________is where no blame is attached to anyone.
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Accidental Death
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________ refers to a person’s romantic and emotional attraction to another person.
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Sexual Orientation
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__________ is a sexual attraction to someone of the other sex.
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Heterosexuality
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__________ is a sexual attraction to someone of the same sex.
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Homosexuality
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__________ is a sexual attraction to people of both sexes.
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Bisexuality
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______ is the social institution that guides a society’s decision making about how to live.
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Politics
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_______ is the social institution that that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Economy
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________ is an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are privately owned.
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Capitalism
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________ is an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are collectively owned.
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Socialism
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________ is the decline of industrial production that occurred in the USA after about 1950.
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Deindustrialization
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__________ is the expansion of economic activity around the world with little regard for national borders.
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Globalization
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____________ is a model of economic development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor societies by rich ones.
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World System Theory
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__________ is the process by which some nations enrich themselves through political and economical control over another nation.
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Colonialism
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__________ is a new form of economic exploitation that involves the operation of multinational corporations rather than direct control by foreign governments.
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Neocolonialism
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