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| The systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior from large scale institutions to small groups and individual interactions. |
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| The level of analysis that studies large scale social structures in order to determine how they affect the lives of groups and individuals |
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| A sense of disorientation that occurs when you enter a radically new social or cultural environment. |
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| Abstract propositions in sociology that explain the social world and make predictions about future events |
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| A theoretical approach that looks at gender inequities in society and the way that gender structures the social world. |
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| An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and characterized by competition, the profit motive, and wage labor. |
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| The degree of integration or unity within a particular society, the extent to which persons in the society feel connected to other members of the society. |
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| Generated by the competition between different groups for scarce resources. |
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| Approaching the world without preconceptions in order to see things in a new way. |
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| The disciplines that use the scientific method to examine the social world- incontrast to the natural sciences, which examine the physical world. |
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| Social groups, institutions, and individuals (especially the family, schools, peers, and the mass media) that provide structured situations in which socialization thakes place. |
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| A position in the social hierarchy that carries a particular set of expectations. |
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| Connections between individuals. |
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| A form of power that is supported by persuasion. |
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| Any physical or social attribute that devalues a person or group's identity and which devalued from normal social interaction. |
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| The objects associated with a cultural group, sucha s toold, machines, utensils, buildings, and artwork; any physical object which we give social meaning. |
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| Positive or negative reactions to the ways that people follow or disobey norms, include rewards for conformity and punishments for norm violators. |
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| The process by which cultures that were once distinct become increasingly similar. |
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| A theoretical statement explaining the relationship between two or more phenomena. |
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| Face-to-face information-seeking conversation, sometimes defined as a conversation with a purpose. |
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| The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige among members of a society. |
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| A measure of an individual's place within a social class system, often usually interchangeably with 'class.' |
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| Poorly educated workers who work full-time but remain below the poverty line, and constitute about 20 percent of the U.S. population. |
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| The social honor people are given because of their membership in well-regarded social group. |
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| The tastes, habits, expectations, skills, knowledge, and other cultural, dispositions that help us gain advantages in society. |
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| A social system with ample opportunities to move from one class to another. |
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| Entrenched attitudes that can develop among poor communities and lead the poor to accept their fate than attempt to improve their lot. |
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| The forcible removal of a group of people from the territory they have occupied. |
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| A cultural pattern of intergroup relations that encourages racial and ethnic variation with a society. |
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| The inclination to feel seual desire toward people of a particulat gender or toward both genders. |
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