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| a collection of people who share some attribute, identify with one another, and interact with each other |
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| a temporary gathering of people in public place; member might interact but do not identify with each other and will not remain in contact |
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| a collection of people who share a physical location but do not have lasting social relation |
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| the people who are most important to our sense of self; member's relationship are typically characterized by face to face interaction, high level of cooperation, and intense feeling of belonging |
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| larger and less intimate than primary groups; member's relationship are usually organized around a specific goal and are often temporary |
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| any group an individual fells opposition, rivalry ore hostility toward |
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| in every cohesive groups, the tendency to enforce a high degree of conformity among members, creating a demand for unanimous agreement |
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| the phenomenon in which as more individual are added to a task, each individual contributes a little less; a source of inefficacy when working in teams |
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| a behavior, trait, belief,or other characteristic that violates a norm and causes a negative reaction |
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| Uniform Crime Report (UCR) |
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| an official measure of crime in the United States, produced by FBI's official tabulation of every crime reported by law enforcement agency |
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| an approach to punishment that emphasizes retaliation or revenge for the crime as the appropriate goal |
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| an approach to punishment that seeks to protect society from criminals by imprison or execute them |
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| an approach to punishment that attempts to reform criminal as part of society. |
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| actions considered deviant within a given context but which are later reinterpreted as appropriate or even heroic |
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| a behavior, trait, belief,or other characteristic that violates a norm and causes a negative reaction |
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| a socially defined category based on real or perceived biological difference between groups of people |
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| a socially defined category, based on common language, religion, nationality, history, or another cultural factor |
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| members of a social group that is systematically denied the same access to power and resources available to society's dominant groups but are not necessarily fewer in number |
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| a set of belief about the superiority or on racial or ethnic group. used to justified inequality and often rooted in the assumption that differences between groups are genetic |
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| an idea about the characteristic of a group that is applied to all members of that group and is unlikely to change regardless of the evidence against it. |
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| unequal treatment of individual based on their membership in a social group, usually motivated by prejudice. |
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| the deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial, ethnic , nation or cultural group |
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| the forcible removal of a group of people from the territory they have occupied. |
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| the economic and political domination and subjugation of the minority group by the controlling group within a nation |
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| a pattern of relations between ethnic or racial groups in which the minority group is adsorbed into the mainstream or dominant group, making society more homogeneous. |
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| the physical, behavior, and personal traits that a group considers normal for its male and female members |
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| individuals who identify with the opposite sex and have surgery to alter their own sex so it fits their self image. |
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| term describing an individual whose sense of gender identity is at odds with his or her physical sex but who has not necessarily sought sex change surgery |
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