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| The scientific study of human population, including size, growth, movement, density, and composition. |
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| The organization of production and distribution of goods and services within a sociocultural system. |
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| Weber's term for the process by which modes of precise calculation based on observation and reason increasingly dominate the social world. |
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| The study of large-scale organizations, sociocultural systems, or the world- system of societies. |
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| Characterized by a tendency to generalize or to search for universal laws or principles. Sociology is a nomothetic enterprise. |
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| The specialization of work tasks or occupations and their interrelationships. |
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| A structural condition in which social norms are weak or conflicting. |
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| The sense that one has lost control over social institutions that one has participated in creating; often characterized as estrangement from the self and from the society as a whole. |
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| A theoretical perspective that focuses on the ways in which various parts of the social system contribute to the continuity of society and on the effects that the various parts have on one another. |
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| A component part of the sociocultural system that has negative impact (or harmful effect) on other parts of the system or on the system as a whole. |
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| An unintended consequence of one part of a sociocultural system on the whole or on other parts of that system. |
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| Material, structural, and cultural elements that make up the total system. |
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| The view that material conditions (usually economic and technological factors) play the central role in determining social stability and change. |
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| The pursuit of one’s values and beliefs, often to the exclusion of practical reality. |
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| The study of the system of relationships between organisms and their environment. |
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