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| systimatic study of human societies |
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| what is the primary theme of sociology? |
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| Our everyday thoughts and actions are the product of a complex interplay between massive social forces and personal characteristics. We can't understand the relationship between individuals and societies without understanding both. |
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| What is Social Imagination? |
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| The ability to see the impact of social forces on our everyday life. |
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| What is Individualistic Explanation? |
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| Tendency to attribute peoples achievements and failures to there personal qualities. |
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| Social position aquired through ones own efforts or accompishments or taken on voluntarily. |
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| Social position acquired at birth or taken on involunartily later in life. |
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| Subfroup of a triad, formed when two members unite against the third member. |
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| What is Conflict perspective? |
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| theoretical perspective that views the structure of society as a source of inequality, that always benefits some groups at the expense of others. |
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| Language, values, neliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a society. |
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| Group consisting of two people. |
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| Define:Feminist perspective |
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| Theoretical perspective that focuses on gender as the most important source of conflict and inequality in social life. |
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| process through which people's lives all around the worl become economically, politically, eviormentally, and culturally interconnected. |
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| Set of people who interact more or less reularly and who are conscious of their identity as a unit. |
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| Inintended, unrecognized consequences of activities that help some part of the social system. |
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| A way of examining human life that focuses on the broad social forces and structeural features of society the exists above the level of individual people. |
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| Frustration people feel when the demands of one role they are expected to fulfill calsh with the demands of another role. |
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| Way of examining human life that focuses on the immediate, everyday experiances of individuals. |
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| Culturally defined standard or rule of conduct. |
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| Large, complex network of positions created for specific purpose and characterized by a hierachical division of labor. |
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| Collection of individuals whoare together over a relatively long period, whose members have direct contact with a feel emotional attachment to one another. |
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| Relatively impersonal collecton of individuals that is established to perform a specific task. |
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| Define: Social Institution |
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| Stable set of roles, statuses, groups, and organizations- such as the institution of education, family, politics, religion, health care, or the economy- that provieds a foundation for behavior in some mahor area of social life. |
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| Population of people living in the same geographic area who share a culture anda common identity and whose members fall under the same political authority. |
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| any names social position the people can occupy. |
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| Define: Structural-functionalist perspective |
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| Theoretical perspective that posits that social institutions are structured to maintain stability and order in society. |
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| Something Used to represent or stand for something else. |
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| Define: Symbolic Interactionism |
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| theoretical perspective that explains sociery and social structure throughtan examination of the micro-level, personal, day-to-day exchanges of peopl as individuals, pairs or groups. |
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| Group consistng of three people. |
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| Standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcome. |
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