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Sociology
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Informational Conformity
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When a person makes a decision influenced by others in a group.
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Game Stage
Definition
A level of development when children learn to consider roles of several people at one time.
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Institutional Discrimination
Definition
Intolerance that results from unfair practices that put others at a disadvantage.
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Definition
An expectation that leads to behaviors that cause the expectation to become a reality.
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Differential Association
Definition
A proposal that deviant behavior is learned. People tend to emulate their reference group.
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Resocialization
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Breaking down a person/people and forcing new values/beliefs upon them, instead of building up.
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Role Strain
Definition
Conflicting characters within a single status. i.e. hero/villain.
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Role Conflict
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Problems between characters performance in different statuses.
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Informal Organization/Structure
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A group in which personal relationships are guided by rules, rituals, and sentiments not provided for by the formal institution.
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Structural Mobility
Definition
Motility that occurs b/c of changes in the distribution of occupational opportunities.
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Peter Principle
Definition
Employees and bureaucratic rise to level of competence.
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Merton's Anomie Theory
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Deviance is most likely to occur when there is a discrepancy between a culturally prescribed goal and a legitimate means of obtaining it.
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