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Absolute poverty correct answers A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist. Achieved status correct answers A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts. Activity theory correct answers An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted. Adoption correct answers 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. Affirmative action correct answers Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities. Ageism correct answers A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly. Agrarian society correct answers The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow. Alienation correct answers The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society. Amalgamation correct answers The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group. Anomie correct answers Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective. Anomie theory of deviance correct answers 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. Anticipatory socialization correct answers Processes of socialization in which a person "rehearses" for future positions, occupations, and social relationships. Anti-Semitism correct answers Anti-Jewish prejudice. Apartheid correct answers The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites. Argot correct answers Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.