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Definitions for various sociological terms, including religious concepts, family structures, gender roles, economic systems, discrimination, and more. It covers topics such as civil religion, secularism, cohabitation, civil union, domestic partnership, sex, gender, patriarchy, sexism, glass ceiling, capitalism, race, ethnicity, discrimination, racism, ethnocentrism, corporation, alienation, union busting, meritocracy, social mobility, ideology, media, consumerism, global warming, and risk society.
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Set of sacred beliefs so commonly accepted by most people that it becomes part of the national culture TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 The way people make sense of their world TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Holy things that are put to special use for the worship of gods or supreme beings, things kept separate from the profane realm TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Everyday life TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Worship of a god or gods as in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism
Adherence to certain principles to lead a moral life, as in Buddhism an Taoism TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 Belief that spirits are part of the natural world, as in totemism TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 General movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief toward a rational, scientific orientation, a trend observed in Muslim and Christian industrialized nations alike. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 Living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Legally recognized unions explicitly intended to offer similar state-provided legal rights and benefits as marriage.
Sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as a male or female. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 A nearly universal system involving the subordination of femininity to masculinity. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 Occurs when a person's sex or gender is the basis for judgment, discrimination, and hatred against him or her. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 An invisible limit on women's climb up the occupational ladder. TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 Economic system in which property and goods are primarily owned privately Investments are determined by private decisions Prices, production, and the distribution of goods are determined primarily by competition in a free market
A group of people who share a set of characteristics Typically physical ones, and are said to share a common bloodline TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 One's ethnic quality or affiliation. It is voluntary, self- defined, nonhierarchal, fluid and multiple, and based on cultural differences, not physical ones per se. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 Harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category without regard to their individual merit. TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 The belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits. TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own.
A system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect. TERM 32
DEFINITION 32 Any formats or vehicles that carry, present, or communicate information TERM 33
DEFINITION 33 The steady acquisition of material possessions, often with the belief that happiness and fulfillment can thus be achieved. TERM 34
DEFINITION 34 Rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as well as higher global average temps TERM 35
DEFINITION 35 A society that both produces and is concerned with mitigating risks, especially manufactured risks. (Ones that result from human activity)
