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| This status comes to a person largely through their own efforts such as getting a higher education, getting a promotion or acquiring a talent. |
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| Decreasing importance of social ties and community and the corresponding increase in impersonal associations. |
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| State of normlessness that typically occurs during a period of profound social change and disorder. |
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| Anticipatory Socialization |
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| Refers to the processes of socialization in which a person rehearses for future positions, occupations and social relationships. |
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| An assigned status to a person at birth by the society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics. |
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| Behavior that follows from the formation of a group or crown of people who take action together toward a shared goal. |
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| Conflict Theory/Perspective |
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| Emphasizes the coersion and exploitation that underlies relations between groups. Social behavior is in a state of conflict and tension. |
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| A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture. |
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| The eveluation of a people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture. |
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| The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behavior; values, and ideas. |
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| The scientific study of population. |
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| Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society. |
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| Set apart from others primarily because of its national origins or distinctive cultural patters. |
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| The tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others. |
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| Norms that shape the daily behavior of members of a culture; violations of these, raises little concern. |
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| The attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole that child takes into account in his or her behavior. |
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| Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs. |
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| The unconscious or unintended functions that may reflect hidden purposes of an institution. |
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| Formaized norms; governmental social control. |
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| The self is the product of social interactions with other people. |
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| The stated and conscious of an institution. The intended, recognized consequences of an aspect of society. |
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| Members of a social group that is systematically denied the same access to power and resources available to society's dominant groups but who are not necessarily fewer in number than the dominant group. |
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| Deemed highly necessary norm to the welfare of society, because they embody the most cherished principles of a people. |
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The established standards of behavior maintained by a society. It is widely shared and understood. |
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A family consisting of a married man and woman, and their unmarried children living together. |
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A negative attitude toward an entire group. |
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The small group characterized by intimate, face-to-face association and cooperation |
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The belief that one race is supreme and all others are inferior. Power is institutional or systemic or structural in form is used over time to keep "inferior" group down causing long term harms and long term rewards and privileges for the superior group. |
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The process of replacing previously learned norms and values with the new ones as a part of a transition in life. |
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Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm. |
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Refers to a formal, impersonal, group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding. |
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An inaccurate statement or belief that by altering the situation, becomes inaccurate; a prediction that causes itself to come true. |
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Refers to individuals who are most important in the development of the self such as parents, friends, coworkers, etc |
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Refers to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income. |
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Techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior in any society. |
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The movement of individuals or gorups from one position in a society's stratification system to another position. |
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Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society. |
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The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships. |
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The process of learning culture, which affects the basic attitudes, values, and behaviors of children. |
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A fairly large number of people that live in the same territory and participate in a common culture |
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An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society today and in the past. |
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The scientific study of social behavior and human groups. |
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The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy |
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structural-functional theory |
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Thinking of society as an living organism in which each part of the organisim contributes to its survival. The way that the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability. |
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A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of customs, rules, and traditions that differs from the pattern of the larger society. |
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symbolic interaction theory |
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An emphasis is placed on the shared understanding of everyday behavior. |
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Movement of increasing numbers of people from rural areas to the cities |
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Collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable and proper or bad, undesirable and improper. |
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A set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status. |
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Condition where whereby members of a society have unequal amounts of wealth, prestige and power. |
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