Married women could not own property.
It was not until the 1900s that every state had given property rights to married women. Property rights started in New York when an Act was officially passed on April 7, 1848 for effectual protection of the property of married women. This modeled for other states to follow.
First box. Sexual identity and gender.
Second box. Gender and race.
Third box. Gender and ethnicity.
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<span>Robert Merton used the term dysfunctions for the harmful consequences of people's actions.
According to Merton, functions (people's actions_ in society can either be functional (positive) or dysfunctional (negative). Here, we are focusing on dysfunctions- harmful consequences of people's actions. Dysfunctions in turn can either be manifest (obvious and expected) or latent (hidden and unintended). A manifest (expected) dysfunction is rowdy behavior at a football game, whereas, a latent (hidden) dysfunction is the effect of urbanization on an endangered bird species.
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