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Adoption   a legal process through which the rights and duties of parenting are transferred from a child's biological and/or legal parents to new legal parents. The adopted child has all the rights of a biological child.  
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Blended Families   a family that consists of a husband and wife, children from previous marriages, and children if any from the new marriage.  
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Capitalism   an economic system charaterized by private ownership of the means of production, from which personal profits can be derived through market competition and without government intervention.  
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Child abuse and neglect   physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, or negligent treatment of a child under teh age of 18 by a person who is responsible for the child's welfare.  
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Corporate crime   illegal acts committed by corporate employees on behalf of the corporation and with its support.  
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Corporate welfare   the government helps industries and private corporations in their economic pursuits.  
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Cultural literacy   yhr rxtent to which a person possesses basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.  
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Democracy   a political system in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representives.  
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Deviance   a behavior, belief, or condition that violates social norms.  
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Divorce   the legal process of dissolving a marriage that allows former spouses to remarry if they so choose.  
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Dual-earner marriages   marriages in which both spouses are in the labor force.  
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Economy   the social institution that ensures that a society will be maintatined through its production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.  
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Education   the social institution responsible fro transmitting knowledge, skills, and cultural values in a formally organized structure.  
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Extended families   a family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children, all of whom live in the same household.  
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Families   relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider the group critical to their identity.  
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Family of orientation   the family that a person is born and in which early socialization takes place.  
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Family of procreation   the family that a person forms by having or adopting children.  
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Government   a formal organization that has legal and political authority to regulate relationships among people in a society and between the society and others outside its borders.  
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Hegemonic masculinity   dominant form of masculinity at that time; constructed in relation to femininities as well as subordinate or marginalized  
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Hidden curriculum   how certain cultural values and attitudes, such as conformity and obediance to authority, are transmitted through implied demands in the everyday rules and routines of schools.  
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Juvenile delinquency   a violation of law or the commission of a status offense by a young person under a specific age.  
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Kinship   a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.  
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Latent functions   hidden, unstated, and sometimes unintented consequences of activities in an organization or institution.  
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Manifest functions   open, stated, and intended goals or consequences of activities within an organization or institution.  
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Media industries   major businesses that own ,interests, in radio and television production and broadcasting; movie, theaters, and music co; newspaper, magazine, and book publishing; and internet services and content providers that influence people and cultures worldwide  
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Mixed economy   an econmic system that combines elements of both capitalism (a market econ.) and socialsim (a command econ.).  
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Monogamy   a marriage between one woman and one man.  
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Monopoly   a situation that exists when a single firm controls an industry and accounts for all sales in a specific market.  
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Occupational (white collar) crime   illegal activities committed by people in the course of their employment or normal business activity.  
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Oligopoly   a situation in which a small number of companies or suppliers control an entire industry or service.  
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Organized crime   a business operation that supplies illegal goods and services for profits.  
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Political action committees   special interest groups that fund campaigns to help elect or defeat canidates based on their positions on specific issues.  
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Political economy   the interdependant workings abd interests of political and economic systems.  
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Politics   the social institution through which power is acquired and excercised by some people and groups.  
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Primary sector production   the extraction of raw materials and natural resources from the enviroment  
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Primary socialization   socialization of basic knowledge and values  
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Property crime   the taking of money or property from another without force, the threat of force, or the destruction or property.  
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Second shift   the domestic work that many employed women perform at home after completing their work day on the job  
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Secondary sector production   the processesing of raw materials (from the primary sector) into finished products.  
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Secondary socialization   following primary that emphasizes synthesis, creativity, logic, emotional control, and advanced knowledge.  
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Social control   the systematic practices developed by social groups to encourage conformity and discourage deviance  
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Social institution   a system of patterned and predictable ways of thinking and behaving-beliefs, values, attitudes and norms - concerning important apsects of people's lives in society  
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Socialism   an economic system charaterized by public ownership of the means of production, the pursuit of collective goals, and centralized desicion making.  
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Socialization   the process by which society influneces members to internalize attitudes, beliefs, values, and expectations.  
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Sterotypes   overgeneralizations about the appearance, behavior, or other characteristic of all members of a group.  
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Tracking   assigning students to specific courses and educational programs on the basis of their test scores, previous grades or both.  
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Violent crime   actions involving force or the threat of force against others.  
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