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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
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Sociology
Definition
systematic study of human society and interaction
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sociological imagaination
Definition
C Wright Miller. ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society
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anthropology
Definition
understand human existance over geographic space and evolutionary time
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anomie
Definition
Emile Durkheim. social control becomes ineffective as a result of the loss of shared values and feeling of purpose in society
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double conscienceness
Definition
the identity conflict of being both black and american
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manifest functions
Definition
functions that are intended and/or overtly recognized by the particpants in a social unity
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latent functions
Definition
unintended functions you don't realize
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ethnography
Definition
study of life and activities of a group by researchers that live with them
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nonmaterial culture
Definition
examples: attitudes beliefs and values
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flokways
Definition
informal ways or everyday custom that may beviolated without serious consequences
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soicalization
Definition
lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self identity and skills needed for society
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id
Definition
sigmeund freud. componant of personality that includes all of the persons basic biological drives
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ego
Definition
reality oriented component of personality that imposes restricted on the pleasure seaking drives of the id
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superego
Definition
conscience consisting of the moral and ethical aspects of personality
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anticipatory socialization
Definition
process by which knowledge and skills are learned for future roles
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resocialization
Definition
learning new and different set of attitudes values and behaviors from people in thier background and exoerience
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ascribed status
Definition
status you are born into or you get involuntarily later in life
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social institution
Definition
organized beliefs and roles that establishes how a society will attempt to meet its basic social needs
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mechanical solidarity
Definition
preindustrial areas
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organic solidarity
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industrial society
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gemeinschaft
Definition
relationships are based on personal bonds of friendship
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gesellschaft
Definition
urban society social bonds based on impersonal and specialized relationships no long term commitment
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aggregate
Definition
people in the same place at the same time. not mch else in common
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category
Definition
people who share similar things like race evel age etc
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authoritarian leader
Definition
people who make all the major group decisions and asign tasks to members
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bureaucracy
Definition
hierachy of authority, a clear division of labor
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deviance
Definition
behavior belief or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs
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primary deviance
Definition
the initial ct of rule-breaking
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secondary deviance
Definition
someone accepts that they are a trouble maker
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occupational crimes
Definition
illegal activites commited by people who are considered white collar
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retribution
Definition
punishment that a person receives for infringing on the rights of others.
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