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__________ is the social institution that organizes a society's production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. F) The economy
__________ is a productive system based on service work and high technology. E) Postindustrial economy
__________ is the part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural environment. M) Primary sector
__________ is the part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods. R) Secondary sector
__________ is the part of the economy that involves services rather than goods. I) Tertiary sector
__________ is expanding economic activity with little regard for national borders. L) Global economy
__________ is an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are privately owned. D) Capitalism
__________ is an economic system in which natural resources and the means of production are collectively owned. A) Socialism
__________ is a hypothetical economic and political system in which all members of a society are socially equal. K) Communism
__________ is an economic and political system that combines a mostly market-based economy with extensive social welfare programs. Q) Welfare capitalism
__________ is an economic and political system in which companies are privately owned but cooperate closely with the government. H) State capitalism
__________ refers to the jobs that provide extensive benefits to workers. P) Primary labor market
__________ refers to the jobs that provide minimal benefits to workers. T) Secondary labor market
__________ are organizations of workers that seek to improve wages and working conditions through various strategies, including negotiations and strikes. N) Labor unions
A(n) __________ is a prestigious white-collar occupation that requires extensive formal education. G) profession
__________ is an economic activity involving income unreported to the government as required by law. J) Underground economy
A(n) __________ is an organization with a legal existence, including rights and liabilities, apart from that of its members. C) corporation
A(n) __________ is a giant corporation composed of many smaller corporations. B) conglomerate
__________ is the domination of a market by a single producer. O) Monopoly
__________ is the domination of a market by a few producers. S) Oligopoly
__________ is the social institution that distributes power, sets a society's agenda, and makes decisions. K) Politics
__________ is the ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others. H) Power
__________ is a formal organization that directs the political life of a society. B) government
__________ is power that people perceive as legitimate rather than coercive. C) Authority
__________ is the power legitimized through respect for long-established cultural patterns. L) Traditional authority
__________ is power legitimized by legally enacted rules and regulations. M) Rational-legal authority or bureaucratic authority
__________ is power legitimized through extraordinary personal abilities that inspire devotion and obedience. P) Charismatic authority
__________ refers to the transformation of charismatic authority into some combination of traditional and bureaucratic authority. W) Routinization of charisma
__________ is a type of political system in which a single family rules from generation to generation. T) Monarchy
10. __________ is a type of political system that gives power to the people as a whole. I) Democracy
__________ is a type of political system that denies popular participation in governments. J) Authoritarianism
__________ is a highly centralized political system that extensively regulates people's lives. A) Totalitarianism
__________ is a range of government agencies and programs that provides benefits to the population. F) Welfare state
__________ are political alliances of people interested in some economic or social issue. U) Special-interest groups
__________ are organizations formed by special-interest groups, independent of political parties, to raise and spend money in support of political aims. O) Political action committees (PACs)
__________ is an analysis of politics that sees power as dispersed among many competing interest groups. V) Pluralist model
__________ is an analysis of politics that sees power as concentrated among the rich. S) Power-elite model
__________ is an analysis that explains politics in terms of the operation of a society's economic system. D) Marxist political-economy model
__________ is the overthrow of one political system in order to establish another. E) Political revolution
__________ refers to acts of violence or the threat of such violence used as a political strategy by an individual or group. G) Terrorism
__________ is organized, armed conflict among the people of various nations, directed by their governments. N) War
__________ is the close association of the federal government, the military, and defense industries. Q) Military-industrial complex
__________ is the acquisition of nuclear weapons technology by more and more nations. R) Nuclear proliferation
__________ is a social instrument found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and raising of children. K) The family
__________ is a social bond based on blood, marriage, or adoption. R) Kinship
__________ is a legally sanctioned relationship, usually involving economic cooperation as well as sexual activity and childbearing, that people expect to be enduring. C) Marriage
__________ is a family unit that includes parents and children as well as other kin. I) Extended family or Consanguine family
__________ is a family unit composed of one or two parents and their children. N) Nuclear family or Conjugal family
__________ is marriage between people of the same social category. O) Endogamy
__________ is marriage between people of different social categories. P) Exogamy
__________ is marriage that unites two partners. E) Monogamy
__________ is marriage that unites three or more people. T) Polygamy
__________ is marriage that unites one man and two or more women. H) Polygyny
__________ is marriage that unites one woman and two or more men. Q) Polyandry
__________ is a residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the husband's family. J) Patrilocality
__________ is a residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the wife's family. U) Matrilocality
_________ is a residential pattern in which a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents. V) Neolocality
__________ is the system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations. F) Descent
__________ is a system tracing kinship through men. L) Patrilineal descent
__________ is a system tracing kinship through women. S) Matrilineal descent
__________ is a system tracing kinship through both men and women. G) Bilateral descent
__________ is a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives. W) Incest taboo
__________ is marriage between people with the same social characteristics. M) Homogamy
__________ is sexual activity outside marriage. D) Infidelity
__________ is emotional, physical, or sexual abuse of one family member by another. A) Family violence
__________ is the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple. B) Cohabitation

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