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| relatively stable pattern of social behavior |
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| Consequence of social patterns for the operating of society as a whole |
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| Robert Merton's 2 functions |
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Manifest function - consequence of social structure that's both recognized and intended Latent function - consewuenfce that's unrecognized and unintended. Manifest - higher education to give you knowledge Latent keep you out of labor market |
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| framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change |
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| founding member of NAACP. first person of color to get doctorine at Harvard. |
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| Symbolic interaction approach |
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| framework for building theory that sees society as the product of everyday interaction of individuals |
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| broad focus on social structure that shapes society as a whole |
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| close up focus on social structure that shapes society as a whole |
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| mental construct that represents some part of the world in a simplified form |
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| concept whose value changes from case to case |
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| a process of determining the value of a variable in a specific case |
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mode - value occcures most often in a set of numbers mean - average of series of numbers median- number midway in a series from low to high |
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| consitency and measurement |
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| precision in measuring exactly what you intend to measure |
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