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1. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.

2. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.

3. The incidence of diseases in a given population.

4. Salaries and wages.

5. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.

6. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.

7. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.

8. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.

9. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.

10. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.

11. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.

12. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.

13. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.

14. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.

15. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.

16. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.

17. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.

18. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.

19. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.

20. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.

21. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.

22. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.

23. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.

24. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.

25. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.

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