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age setFormally organized social group consisting of every male (or female) of comparable age. In societies where the practice traditionally occurs (e.g., the Nuer of the southern Sudan or the Masai of Kenya and Tanzania), a person belongs, either from birth or from a determined age, to a named age set that passes through a series of life stages, or age grades, each of which has a distinctive status or social and political role. See also rite of passage; social status. |
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Products abused as inhalants should be put behind the counter with
the buying age set at 18, because their effects can be equally as
deadly, said McCarty. The Ekperi name Igbokobia suggests an Igbo
derivation and recalls the Onitsha term okolobia that refers to the
young adult status acquired by the age set fully inducted into the
collective incarnate dead (Henderson 1972:357; Osadebe 1981:69). However, if there had been
no minimum offending age set for the 1991 study and the number of male
perpetrators thus increased from 3% to 4% (an increase of 33%), we would
have a rate of female offending of 50%. |
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