sociology final chapt 18
Terms
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- Nuclear Family
- A family composed of one or two parents and their children
- Endogamy
- Marriage between people of the same social category
- Exogamy
- Marriage between people of two different social categories
- Monogomy
- marriage that unites two partners
- polygamy
- marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses
- Polygyny
- marriage that unites one man and two or more women
- polyandry
- marriage that unites one women and two or more men
- incest taboo
- a norm forbidding sexual realtions or marriage between certain relatives
- homogamy
- marriage between people with the same social characteristics
- cohabitation
- the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple
- race
- a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important.
- ethnicity
- a shared cultural heritage
- minority
- any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates
- prejudice
- a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people
- stereotype
- a simplified description applied to every person in the same category.
- racism
- the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another
- scapegoat
- a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles.
- predjudice
- a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people
- discrimination
- unequal treatment of various categories of people
- institutional prejudice and discrimination
- bias built into the operation of societies institutions
- pluralism
- a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing
- assimilation
- process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
- segregation
- the physical and social separation of categories of people
- genocide
- the systematic killing of one category of people by another
- miscengenation
- biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories.