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| A style of life in which individuals pursue their own interests and place great importance on developing a personally rewarding life. |
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| Utilitarian individualism |
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| A style of life that emphasizes self reliance and personal achievement |
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| A style of life that emphasizes developing one's feelings and emotional satisfaction |
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| benefits or costs that accrue to others when an individual or business produces something |
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| Good for business, bad for individuals |
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| Bad for business, good for individuals |
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| Things that may be enjoyed by people who do not themselves produce them |
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| one or two adults who are related by marriage, partnership, or shared parenthood, who are taking care of dependents, and dependents themselves |
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| intimate relationship- who usually live in the same household and pool their incomes |
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| family members are uncertain who is in or out of family |
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| kinship ties that people construct actively |
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| kinship ties that people more or less automatically acquire when they are born or marry |
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| the tendency for people to obtain public goods by letting others do the work of prodcuing them |
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| the ability to draw conclusions about a social situation that are unaffected by one's own beliefs |
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| a systematic, organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem |
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| a speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables |
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| a study in which individuals from a geographic area are selected usually at random and asked a fixed set of questions |
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| observational study (also know as field research) |
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| a study in which the researcher spends time directly observing each particpant |
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| a survey in which interviews are conducted several times at regular intervals |
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| a sociological theory that views people as rational beings who decide whether to exchange goods or services by considering the benefits they will receive, the costs they will incur, and the benefits they might recieve if they were to choose an alternative course of action |
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| analysis of survey data by the people who collected the information |
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| analysis of survey date by people other than those who collected it |
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| breadwinner-homemaker family |
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| a married couple with children in which the father worked for pay and the mother did not |
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| symbolic interaction theory |
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| a sociological theory that focuses on people's interpretations of symbolic behavior |
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| a sociological theory that focuses on the domination of women by men |
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| the social and cultural characteristics that distinguish women and men in a society |
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| the last few decades of the twentieth century and the present day |
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| a person's sense of who he or she is and of where he or she fits in the social structure |
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| the process through which individuals take in knowledge, reflect on it, and alter their behavior as a result |
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| a sociological theory that attempts to determine the functions, or uses, of the main ways in which a society is organized |
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| a sociological theory that focuses on inequality, power, and social change |
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| a set of roles and rules that define a social unit of importance to society |
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