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| focuses on the function of each component of society and how those components fit together |
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| deliberate actions that serve to help a given system |
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| unexpected, unintended, or unrecognized positive consequences of manifest functions |
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| focuses on how power differentials are created and how these differentials contribute to the maintenance of social order |
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| the study of the ways individuals interact through a shared understanding of words, gestures, and other symbols |
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| exlpores the ways in which individuals adn groups make decisions to agree upon a given social reality |
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| states that individuals will make decisions that maximize potential benefit and minimize potential harm |
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| the application of rational choice theory to interactions within social groups |
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| explores the ways in which one gender can be subordinated, minimized, or devalued compared to the other |
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| well established social structures that dictate certain paterns of behavior or relationships and are accepted as a fundamental part of culture; ie family, education, religion, government, health and medicine |
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| includes the physical items one associates with a given group, such as artwork, emblems, clothing, jewelry, foods, building, and tools |
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| includes the ideas associated with a cultural group |
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| refers to the idea that material culture changes more quickly than symbolic culture |
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| consists of spoken or written symbols combined into a system and governed by rules |
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| a social difference that impedes interaction |
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| what a person deems important in life |
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| something a person considers to be true |
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| formalized ceremonial behavior in which members of a group or community regularly engage |
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| refers to the statistics of populations and are the mathematical applications of sociology; age, gener, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and immigration status are all demographic variables |
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| prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age |
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| the set of behavioral, cultural, or pscyhological traits typically associated with a biological sex |
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| the intentional or unintentional empowerment of one gender to the detriment of the other |
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| a social construct based on phenotypic difference between groups of people; may be real or perceived differences |
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| a social construct that sort people by cultural factors, including language, nationality, religion, and other factors |
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| ethnicity that is only relevant on special occasions or in specific circumstances |
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| defiend by one's sexual interest toward member's of the same, opposite, or both sexes |
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| the movement into a new geographic area |
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| the movement away from a geographic area |
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| average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime in a population |
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| relative to a population size over time, usually measured as the number of births per 1000 people per year |
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| average number of deaths per population size over time, usually measured as the number of deaths per 1000 people per year |
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| a model used to represent drops in birth and death rates as a result of industrialization |
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| organized to promote (proactive) or resist (reactive) social change |
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| the process of integrating a global economy with free trade and tapping of foreign labor markets |
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| the process of dense areas of population creating a pull for migration; in other words, creating cities |
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