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| The ways in which people respond to one another. |
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| The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships. |
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| A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society. |
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| A social position that is "assigned" to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics. |
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| A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts. |
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| A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society. |
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| a "Persona" that one adapts while they go through thier social interactions |
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| The situation that occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person. |
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| The situation that occurs when the same social position imposes conflicting demands and expectations. |
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| Any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis. |
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| A small group characterized by intimate, face-to-face association and cooperation. |
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| A formal, impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding. |
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| Any group or category to which people feel they belong. |
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| Any Group where one feels they do not belong |
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| A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others, and through them, indirectly to still more people. |
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| Techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior in any society. |
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| A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm. |
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| Going along with peers—individuals of our own status, who have no special right to direct our behavior. |
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| Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure. |
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| Control that people use casually to enforce norms. |
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| Control carried out by authorized agents, such as police officers, physicians, school administrators, employers, military officers, and managers of movie theaters. |
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| Governmental social control. |
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| adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment, or both. |
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| A label society uses to devalue members of a certain social group. |
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| Émile Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective. |
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| Anomie Theory of Deviance |
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| A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment, or both. |
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| A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions. |
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| A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts. |
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| A theory that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants. |
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| Societal-Reaction Approach |
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| Alternate name for labeling Theory |
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| A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner. |
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| Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised. |
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