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| When a person makes a decision influenced by others in a group. |
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| A level of development when children learn to consider roles of several people at one time. |
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| Institutional Discrimination |
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| Intolerance that results from unfair practices that put others at a disadvantage. |
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| An expectation that leads to behaviors that cause the expectation to become a reality. |
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| A proposal that deviant behavior is learned. People tend to emulate their reference group. |
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| Breaking down a person/people and forcing new values/beliefs upon them, instead of building up. |
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| Conflicting characters within a single status. i.e. hero/villain. |
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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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| Motility that occurs b/c of changes in the distribution of occupational opportunities. |
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| Employees and bureaucratic rise to level of competence. |
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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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