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| Behavior that does not follow the norm, usually done to people who act to escape public notice and consequences; motivated by self-interest like a burglar. |
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Institutions and individuals in society that help make us all conform - customs and manners
- ostracism and expulsion
- force
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| social isolation associated with certain social relationships |
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| when abused victims will adopt learned helplessness until the last beating, when they will fight back, usually kiling their perpetrator, idea of 'kill or be killed' |
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| conceptions or ideas about human life and the meaning of human experiances |
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| person who is attracted to both their same and opposite sex |
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blaming an individual or group of people for things that happen to them even though the causes lie within society |
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| category of people who share common position in a heirarchy of society |
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| doing what one is told, usually when an opportunity presents itself |
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| an awareness of the social stratification system and ones position in it |
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| blue print design for living in a society, system of expectations and goals shared within a society, system of norms and values |
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- Melting Pot, A+B+C+D immigrants getting mixed into the American or dominant culture
- Salad Bowl, ABCD cultures thrown into one culture but keeping own values and norms; subculture
- Anglo-Conformity, ABCD into one culture
- Untitled,different cultures with own values and beliefs trying to emulate one main culture
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| understanding a society or group of people by their own standards |
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- Tension Building: when minor battering takes place and both deny perpetration
- Acute Battering: uncontrolled battering takes place over hours or days
- Love/Contrite Behavior: when perpetrator will suck victime back in with acts of kindness
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| behavior falling outside acceptable range according to social norms and values |
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| historical process in which there is a thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis that repeats over and over again |
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| action of unequal or unfair treatement of individual based on their irrelevant category |
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| cultural factors that make up an ethnic group, for example heritage or traditions |
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| attitude that one's culutre is better/superior to others, that one's beliefs and values are more correct then other, understanding of only own culture |
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| lack of awareness that there is a stratification system in society and one's position in it |
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| any act that is carried out with the intent or percieved intent of causing physical pain or injury to a family member |
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| norms generally regarded as useful, but not essential to society |
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| how we are taught to act depending on our sex, for example boys play with baseball gloves, girls play with dolls |
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| social, cultural, and physological characteristics linked to male and female that define people as masculine or feminine |
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person who is born with both female and male genitalia |
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| person who is attracted to the opposite sex |
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| person who is attracted to the same sex |
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when the value system of a society becomes opinion |
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| public stamping, typing, or cateegorizing of a person or group |
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| shared verbal meaning of cultre, for example the word money |
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| abused victims learning that noting they do helps their situation, will start to do nothing to protect themselves from abuse |
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| ethnic groups with little or now power in society |
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| norms generally regarded as essential for the welfare of society, associated with strong feelings of right or wrong |
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| behavior that challenges the norms of society, for example anti-war protesters |
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| rules, expectations, guidelines defining required behaviors of individuals in society |
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- coercive: power comes from those who can administer consequense, i.e. police officer
- legitamate: power that comes from a position or office
- expert: power comes from having knowledge or information, i.e. doctor
- Referent: power from position as role model
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| prejudgement based soely on the basis of membership in a category of people, not based on fact, but fear, associated with negative feelings towards a group |
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| form of descrimination based on characteristics of race |
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| blaming an individual or group of people for another's problems |
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| expectations about others leads them to behae in ways that conform to those expectations |
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| biological characteristics distinguishing male and female |
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beliefe that one's own sex is superior to other - individual sexism
- cultural sexism
- institutional sexism
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| the manner in which people experiance sexual arousal/pleasure |
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| transformation of culture and social institutions over time |
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attempts by society to regulate thoughts/behaviors of individuals |
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| where we are in history determines norms and values |
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- all weather liberals: non-prejudice, none descriminating and will stop unfair treatment of others
- fair weather liberals: non-prejudice, descriminators, will follow others ideas about people because of fear
- fair weather illiberals: prejudic, non-descriminators, hold prejudice thoughts but will not partake in disrimination
- all weather illiberals: prejudice descriminators
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the division of a larger group or society into ranked categories of people |
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| any relativity in social behavior |
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| life long social experiance by which individuals develop their human potential and learn their own culture |
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| way in which people are organized |
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| objective measures of class position based on income, occupation and education |
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- quantitative: collecting data, using numbers to analyze behaviors
- qualatative: collecting historical data, using observations to analyze behaviors
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a) Structural Functionalism: theory loks at how a society is organized:all societies are blanced, balance and harmony, societies will evolve b) Social Conflict: theory loks at the conflict within a society: everything based on economy, dialectic change, revolution, sometimes violent, other times not c) Symbolic Interactionism:theory looks at how people interact with each other within a society: evolve over time, meanings are negotiated, accepted as a whole, every behavior and gesture comes to mean something |
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| scientific study of human behavior |
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| rigid negative understanding/generalization about an individual or group |
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| theory about deviance, that states teh rate of deviance increases in a situation where the deviant has little chance of achieving their intended goal |
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| cultural patterns that distinguish some segment of societies population |
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| behavior of society taugh non-verbally |
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| the 'though shall not' theory, mores that are prohibited and unacceptable behaviors in society, for example murder |
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| assertion that situations that are defined as real become real in their consequences |
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umbrella term used for people who are transgressing the boundaries of gender norms: includes transsexuals, drag kings, and queens and those who call themselves "queer" |
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