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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
07/28/2011

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decentered view of consciousness
Definition
The locus of mind is not in the individual. Mental processes are fragments of the complex conduct of the individual in and on his environment
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significant symbols
Definition
“It is through the ability to be the other at the same time that he is himself…"
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passing
Definition
For example, in an important sense there is only one complete unblushing male in America: a young, married, white, urban, northern, heterosexual Protestant father of college education, fully employed, of good complexion, weight, and height, and a recent record in sports.
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social structures
Definition
“organized sets of social relationships in which members of the society or group are variously implicated.”
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social structures
Definition
Behavior is a result not merely of personal qualities, but of these in interaction with the patterned situations in which the individual behaves.
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habitus
Definition
systems of durable, transposable dispositions, structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures, that is, as principles which generate and organize practices and representations that can be objectively adapted to their outcomes without presupposing a conscious aiming at ends or an express mastery of the operations necessary in order to attain them
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habitus
Definition
}“This durably installed generative principle of regulated improvisations is a practical sense which reactivates the sense objectified in institutions.”
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habitus
Definition
is what enables the institution to attain full realization: it is through the capacity for incorporation, which exploits the body’s readiness to take seriously the performative magic of the social
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