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| Own the means of production in industrial society |
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| A view that society is composed of groups with clashing interests who engage in a struggle over control of valuable social resources |
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| Functionalist Perspective |
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| A view that society is a relatively stable and orderly system composed of interdependent and interrelated parts |
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| The process by which societies are transformed from agricultural-based economic activity to manufacturing-based activity |
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| The largely unintended and unrecognized consequences of an activity or social institution |
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| A focus on the social institutions and large scale social processes that shape society as a whole |
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| The intended, expected, or overtly recognized consequences of an activity or social institution |
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| A focus on the dynamics and meanings of face to face interactions between people and small groups |
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| People who own only their labor power, which they sell to the bourgeoisie to earn a living |
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| The undesirable consequences of an institution or activity for the social system |
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| Patterned ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling beyond the individual |
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| The stable, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group or society |
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| A large social grouping of people who occupy and interact together in the same geographic area; are organized by and subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations; and whose members share a sense of identity, loyalty, and purpose |
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| The ability to see the general in the particular |
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| The systemic study of human society and social interaction |
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| Symbolic-Interaction Perspective |
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| A view of society as the ongoing product of the everyday interactions and shared meanings of people and groups |
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| A basic overall image or paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society |
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| A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how two or more social phenomena are related |
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| The process by which an increasing proportion o a society's population lives in cities instead of rural areas |
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