avoidance relationship

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• avoidance relationship — ▪ anthropology       in human societies, the institutionalized, formal avoidance of one individual by another. Avoidance relationships usually involve persons of opposite sexes who have a specific kin (kinship) relationship to one another.… …   Universalium

• avoidance relationships — A generic term applied to certain potentially difficult or stressful affinal (‘by marriage’) secondary relationships in extended families. In Western societies the archetypical instance is mother in law avoidance. These relationships are, to a… …   Dictionary of sociology

• avoidance curve — the relationship between a fish size or age and its probability of being retained by fishing gear after coming in contact with it …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• joking relationship — ▪ sociology       relationship between two individuals or groups that allows or requires unusually free verbal or physical interaction. The relationship may be mutual (symmetrical) or formalized in such a way that one person or group does the… …   Universalium

• Interpersonal communication relationship dissolution — Relationship DissolutionThe interpersonal communication that occurs during a relationship deterioration/ dissolution looks to explain the possible why behind the relationship breakup and the communication steps that a breakup seems to follow.… …   Wikipedia

• Australian Aboriginal avoidance practices — refers to those relationships in traditional Aboriginal society where certain people were required to avoid others in their family or clan. These customs are still active in many parts of Australia, to a greater or lesser extent.Avoidance… …   Wikipedia

• Conflict avoidance — is a method of dealing with conflict, which attempts to avoid directly confronting the issue at hand. Methods of doing this can include changing the subject, putting off a discussion until later, or simply not bringing up the subject of… …   Wikipedia

• Traffic Collision Avoidance System — The Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System (or TCAS) is an aircraft collision avoidance system designed to reduce the incidence of mid air collisions between aircraft. It monitors the airspace around an aircraft for other aircraft equipped… …   Wikipedia

• Occupancy-abundance relationship — In macroecology, the occupancy abundance (O A) relationship is the relationship between the abundance of species and the size of their ranges within a region. This relationship is perhaps one of the most well documented relationships in… …   Wikipedia

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