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Power: The ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others. ex.) Claire uses her power by telling her husband he won't be able to sell his old junky car. So to prove her wrong he tries to. With the power she uses she wins by making him sell the car.

Economy: The social institution that organized a society's production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. ex.) The economy doesn't have much effect on Mitchel and Cameron, but with a homeless man trying to live in their dollhouse had a great effect on him because he is not able to have a stable income. so the production and distribution iof products is tomuch for him but are good for Cameron and Mitchel.

Social institution: A major sphere of social life, or societal subsystem, organized to meet human needs. ex. ) an example of a social institution in the show would be the families represented, because in the family they have roles. For instance, Phil has the role of a father and Claire has a role of a mother, and their role is to keep everything in order and enforce rules and Haley and Alex have the role as a sister and a daughter and Luke has a role as a son and brother.

Profession: A prestigious white-collar occupation that requires extensive formal education. ex.) Mitchell has a profession of being a lawyer. That can take years of schooling to become a lawyer, and to actually be employed as a lawyer makes it his profession.

Democracy: A political system that finds power to the people as a whole. ex.) Mitchell and Cameron's family is like a democracy, because they work together and they help each other when one is mad or confused with each other. For example, Cameron will always be the stay at home dad because he misses his daughter too much when he is away and he worries about her. Mitchell will be the one that works because he doesn't know how to stay calm when taking care of Lily, and he likes to work.

Global economy: Economic activity that crosses national borders. ex.) In certain episodes it is brought up about Gloria's divorce with her first husband and once they broke up she was getting calls from other men all the time that she has never even met. But once Jay met her, they fell in love when they had their first fight.