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SOCIO Key Terms
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
02/18/2009

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class conflict
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social theory, continual conflict, every actor tries to maximize benefit
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functionalist
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social theory, everyone serves a purpose, "part of a machine", everyone benefits from structure
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manifest (function/dysfunction)
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conscious, deliberate
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latent (function/dysfunction)
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unconscious/unintended
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function
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positive effect
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dysfunction
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negative effect
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positivism
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knowledge is only valid if gained through actual experience, empirical knowledge
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symbolic interaction
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Mead/Cooley, people act based on symbolic meanings they have for objects, determined by social interaction
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cultural leveling
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process of cultures approaching eachother
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folkways
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mannerisms learned from childhood
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ideal/real culture
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what people want to believe/how it is
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mores
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norms or customs
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degradation ceremony
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stripping one's identity to start afresh
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generalized other
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Mead's superego, imagined other used to form identity
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