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Girls receive ___ teacher attention and useful feedback than boys

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Less

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Girls talk significantly ___ in class than boys and when they do speak up, they are ___ likely than boys to be reminded to raise their hands

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less, more

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Girls are ___ likely than boys to be the focus of unwanted sexual attention in school.

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more

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Women earn ___% of all bachelor’s degrees, ___% of all master’s degrees, and ___% of all doctorates

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57.3
60
51

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College women study ___ and have ___ grade point averages than man

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more, higher

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Women are ___ likely to complete their bachelor’s degrees in 4 or 5 years

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more

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Female test scores on math are ___ than those of men

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less

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Women are 2 - 3 time ___ likely to live in poverty than men

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more

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___ numbers of women work in ___-paying jobs

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higher, lower

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an unofficial acknowledge barrier to advancement in a position (particularly as pertains to women)

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glass ceiling

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The ritual of Indian women committing suicide when the husband dies is

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Sati

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FGM

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Female Genital Mutilation

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AKA the Declaration of Rights

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Declaration of Sentiments

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When was the declaration of rights signed?

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1948

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___ men and ___ women signed the declaration of rights

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32, 68

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The family into which an individual is born.

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Family of orientation

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The family that a person forms at his or her marriage.

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Family of procreation

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The marriage of one woman and one man

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Monogamy

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The marriage pattern in which a person has several spouses over a lifetime, but only one at a time.

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Monogamy

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A form of marriage in which a person has multiple spouses

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Polygamy

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A norm that requires people to find marriage partners outside their own group or social category

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Exogamy

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South Koreans are discouraged from forming relationships between people of the same ___

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surname

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In ___, two people from the same village are expected to refrain from romantic involvement

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India

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Marriage with more than one wife

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Polygyny

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Marriage with more than one husband
Polyandry
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The practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships where individuals may have more than one partner, with the knowledge and consent of all partners
Polyamory
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POSSLQs
Person of opposite sex sharing living quarters - cohabitation
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Cohabitation is up __ times since 1970
10
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A family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships.
Blended Family
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__% blended families in the US
17
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There are approximately ____ same sex families in the US
700,000
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Tracing descendants through both father;s ad mother's families
Bi-lineal Descent
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Tracing descendants through male relatives only.
Patrilineal
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Tracing descendants through female relatives only.
Matrilineal
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Kin related by blood.
Consanguineal
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Kin related by marriage
Affinal
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Kin related by adoption
Adopted
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A term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither consanguineal (blood ties) nor affinal ("by marriage") ties, in contrast to true kinship ties.
Fictive Kin
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1967 landmark decision on interracial marriage
loving vs Virginia
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The physical or psychological proximity between people.
propinquity
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The selection of a mate with social characteristics different from one's own.
Heterogamy
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The selection of a mate with personal and social characteristics similar to one's own.
Homogamy
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A function of the family is to define and limit who has ___ access to whom
Sexual
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A function of the family is ___ new members.
reproducing
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A function of the family is to provide ___ and ___ for the young, infirm, and elderly.
care & support
46
A function of the family is ____ing
social
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A function of the family is to provide people with ___ support and a sense of ____, and fulfillment.
emotional, belonging
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According to Engles, the family is a source of ___ for men, and ___ for women and children.
privilege, oppression
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Divorce rates ____ dramatically during the 1950s, but they ___ again during the 1960s and 1970s, peaking in ___
dropped, increased, 1981
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There are approximately ____, 000 in the US
876,000
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Average length of a marriage is?
8 years
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3 factors that contribute to the higher divorce rate.
1) Change in perception - viewed as an agreement that may be ended at their discretion 2) Divorce has a greater acceptance 3) No fault divorce is a legal option in many states
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___ beating occurs in most of the world's societies.
Wife
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Nearly ___% of surveyed women and ___% of men said they'd been raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by a spouse, partner, or date at some point in their lifetimes.
36, 28
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More than ___ million cases of domestic violence occur in the US annually
10 (slide may be 18)
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Mozambique's infant mortality rate approaches ___ per ___ live births
178. 1000
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Mozambique's life expectancy rate is approximately ___ - ___ years
49-51
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By US standards, everyone in Mozambique is ___.
sick
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In the US, infant mortality rates are around ___ per 1000
6.1
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___, ____ & ___ have lower infant mortality rates than the US
Japan, Norway, and UK
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Life expectancy in wealth nations is in the ___ for men, and between ___ & ___ for women
70s | 79 -82
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Conditions like measles, mumps and whooping cough are prevented by ___ in wealthy nations.
Vaccinations
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While __%, of Mozambique's population suffer from malnutrition, ___ % of Americans are overweight.
30 | 70
64
The study of the incidence and distribution of health and disease in society
Epidemiology
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The number of deaths in the first year of life for each 1000 live births per year
Infant mortality
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___ refers to an incidence of ill health in a population. ___refers to the incidence of death or the number of deaths in a population.
Morbidity Mortality
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Women outlive men by __ - ___ years
7 | 10
68
Whites can expect to live ___ years longer than non-whites
5
69
___ ____ suffer the poorest health in the United States, with Higher rates of infant mortality, influenza, typhoid fever
Native Americans
70
An attempt to hide a stigmatizing attribute from others
Passing (think HIV/AIDS)
71
The number of years that a person could live - 120
Life Span
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A "real-world" number of years based on statistics
Life Expectancy
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World's Oldest woman
117
74
World's oldest man
113
75
Individual instance of disease
Cases
76
of people who have a given condition
Prevalence
77
New cases of disease
incidence
78
Localized instance of disease
outbreak
79
When a given disease goes nationwide
Epidemic
80
When a given disease goes global
Pandemic
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Links the biological and the social
Web of Causation
82
religious leader and healer
Shaman
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According to the Ancient Greeks the smooth operation of the body was dependent upon balance - aka ____ theory
Humoral
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The four humors are
1) Blood - source of life 2) Choler (Yellow Bile) what digested food 3) Phlegm - lubricant - too much, too heavy 4) Black Bile - melancholy - would darken the blood or stools
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The ___ helped to keep medicine alive in the West
Church
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The process in which behavior, activities, and problems previously dissociated from health and medicine are now viewed from a medical perspective and seen as within the domain of doctors, hospitals, and other elements of the health-care system
Medicalization of Society
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The sick role (3 things)
1) Expected to take advice 2) Expected to get better 3) social faux pa forgiveness 4) not responsible for being sick
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A strong economy will ___ birth rates
increase
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If educational and career opportunities are available to women, birth rates will typically ____
decrease
90
Urbanization causes ___ birth rates
lower

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