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a small group that persist long enough to develop strong emotional attachments between members, at least a set of rudimentary, functionally differentiated roles
-face to face
-earliest kind of human association experience by maturing individual |
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| patterned behaviors and relationships in society that exist outside individual motivations/ desires. Can partially explain human action/makes it possible. Constrain both externally and internally. Social Structure and individuals are mutually constitutive- individual affects social structure |
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| the full set of fats about an individual that do not hold true to anyone else- what makes us completely different |
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the systematic establishment and signification between individuals, between collectivities, and between individuals and collectivities
-understanding of who we are |
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the capacity of individuals to create or change the social world
-ability to resist structure
-individuals shape environment as it affects them |
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the flow of dollars (salaries wages, and payments periodically received as return fom an occupation, investment or government transfer) over a set period- typically one year
-surrogate for wealth
-necessities of life |
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total exent at a given moment of an individual's accumulated assets and access to resources, refers to net value of assets (ownership of stocks, $ in bank, real estate business ownership) Anything of economic value bought, sold, stocked for futur or investment economic return
-surplus resource for improving life |
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| the range of things peopledo in everyday life that (in part) put them in a social class and show to others they are members of that class |
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