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| A legally recognized organization set up for profit in which the powers and liabilities of the organization are legally separate from the owners or the employees. |
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| A group of individuals related to one another by blood ties, marriage, or adoption. |
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| Culturally defined standards held by human individuals or groups about what is desirable, proper, beautiful, good, or bad. |
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| A formal organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and written rules of procedure, staffed by full-time salaried officials, and striving for the efficient attainment of organizational goals. |
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| The lifelong process through which humans develop an awareness of social norms and values, and achieve a distinct sense of self. |
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| A sociological theory that emphasizes the role of power, authority, and manipulation in sociocultural change and stability. |
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| Theories of cumulative sociocultural change which generally hold that human societies move from simple to complex forms of organization. |
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| The existing state; the way things currently exist. |
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| An intended and known consequence of one part of a sociocultural system on the whole or on other parts of that system. |
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| The ability to achieve aims or further the interests that one holds even when opposed by others. |
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| Power that is attached to a position that others perceive as legitimate. |
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| An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution in which the goal is to produce profit. |
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| Detailed Division of Labor |
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| The breakdown of product manufacturing into simple discrete steps, with each task assigned to an individual worker. |
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| The physical, biological, and chemical constraints to which action is subject. |
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| A positive feedback cycle between two variables A and B, so that an increase in A causes an increase in B, which then causes a further increase in A. |
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