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ant test 3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| feminism | the argument that women and men are eually human and therefore that women are entitled to enjoy the same rights and privileges as men |
| sexism | the systematic sociocultural structures and practices of inquality, derived from patriarchal institutions, that continue to shape relations between women and men |
| patriarchy | the domination of men over women and children |
| sex | the physical characteristcs that traditionally distinguish males from females |
| androgyny | a condition in which an individual person possess both male and female characteristics |
| matriarchy | where women as a group dominate men as a group |
| intersex | individuals who possess ambiguous genitalia; many who experience this condition prefer to describe it as a disorder of sexual development |
| gender | the culturally constrructed roles assinged to males or females, which vary considerably from society to society |
| gender binary | a dual gender categorization seperating all women from all men |
| transgender | a term proposed in 1960s by medical researchers to classify individuals who, in one way or another, seemed dissatisfied with the sex and gender assingments they had recieved at birth |
| gender performativity | the concept that gender is something we "preform" or "enact", something we "do", not something we "are" |
| public/private divide | a barrier that law and custom erected between "private" domestic life in the family, conceived as "women's place" and public life, outside the family, concieved as the domain of men |
| intersectionality | the notion that institutional forms of oppresion organized in terms of race, class, and gender are interconnected and shape the opportunities and constraints available to individuals in any society |
| ytansvestism | the practice of dressing and taking on mannerisms associated with a gender other than one's own |
| cyborg anthropology | an area of specializatino in which anthropologists facus attention on the proliferating cybernetic connections between humans and machines in contemporary societies |
| affect | visceral arousal, emotion, or feeling |
| sexuality | the ways in whcih people experience and value physical desire and pleasure in the context of sexual intercourse |
| bisexuality | sexual attraction to both males and females |
| heterosexuality | the view that "natural" sexual attraction, leading to "natural" sexual intercourse, occurs only between males and females |
| homosexuality | the heteronormative opposite of heterosexuality; that is, sexual relations involving two men or two women |
| heteronormativity | the view that heterosexual intercourse is the "normal" form that sexual expression always takes |
| heterosexism | a form of bias (like sexism) against all those who are hot heterosexual |
| queer | a self-identification claimed by some persons whos gender identities or sexual practices fall outside the range define by the "heterosexual-homosexual" continuum |
| gay | an affirmative and empowering self-designation for individuals medically classified as homosexual, which became widespread voer the course of the twentith century |
| lesbian | a term used to describe female same-sex sexuality around the turn of the twentith century |
| composite masculinities | men mix different values like loyalty, hard work, fatherhood, or religious faith to express their manhood |
| ART | assisited reproductive technologies |
| relatedness | the socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of different ways |
| imagined communities | term borrowed from political scientists Benedict Anderson to refer to groups whose members' knowledge of one another does not come form regualr face to face interactions but is based on shared experiences with national institutions (school) |
| kinship | social relatinoships that are prototypically derived from the unicersal experiences of mating, birth, and nutrurance |
| bilateral/cognatic descent | the principle that a descent gorup is formed by people whi believe they are related to each other by connections made through their mothers and fathers equally |
| bilateral kindred | a kinship group that consists of the relatives of one person or a gorup of siblings |
| unilineal descent | the princiiple that a descent group is fromed by people who believe they are related to each other by linkes through father or mother only |
| patrilineage | a social group formed by people connected by father-child links |
| matrilineage | a social group formed by people connected by mother-child links |
| lineage | the consanguineal members of descent groups who believe they can trace their descent from known ancestors |
| clan | a descent group formed by members who believe they have a common (sometimes mythical) ancestors, even if they cannot specify the genealogical links |
| bifurcation | a criterion employed in the analysis of kinship terminologies in which kinship terms referring to the mother's side of the famliy are distinguished from those referring to the father's side |
| parallel cousins | the children of a peron's parents' same gender siblings (dad-bro, mom-sis) |
| cross cousins | the children of a person's parents' opposite gender siblings |
| ascribed status | social positions people are assigned at birth |
| acheived status | social positions people may attain later in life, result of their efforts |
| affinity | connection through marriage |
| consanguineal | kinship connections based on descent |
| lineal kin | direct ancestors or descendents of ego |
| collateral kin | ego's siblings, and their descendents AND the siblings of lineal kins of ascending generations and their descendents |
| agnates | members of same patrilinial descent groups |
| cognates | kin related through either father or mother; extended relatives on either side |
| fictive kin | related through adoption |
| patrilocal residence | living with or near husbands family |
| matrilocal residence | libing with or near wifes family |
| avuncolocal residence | places a coup near the wifes mothers brother |
| neolocal residence | forming a new household |
| bridewealth | good or wealth transferred from the grooms side to the brides family |
| dawry | wealth, goods, or property transferred with the bride into marriage |
| family | a social unit built through kinship, marriage, and shared responsibility |
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