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Rural Sociology 105
Midterm 2
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
11/14/2011

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white collar crime
Definition
illegal acts committed by affluent persons in the course of business
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Apartheid
Definition
S African racism that didn't allow blacks into the city
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Crime triangle
Definition
opportunity, victim, offender
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Crimes in rural environments
Definition
crime against woman is up, agriculture theft is big, some types of crime occur more in rural areas than urban
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Deviant behavior
Definition
something that breaks a social norm
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Divorce rates
Definition
have dropped, they decrease when have degree, religious, older at birth, money
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Esb
Definition
social structure of group, organization, societies
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I
Definition
private image of ourselves
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Inis Baeg
Definition
only one child can be married suppress sexual desires, intercourse is considered unhealthy
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Me
Definition
the socially derived image of ourselves
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Normal behavior
Definition
behavior that obeys norms
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Nuclear family
Definition
husband wife kids
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SWAG
Definition
scientific wild ass guess
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Seven big trends
Definition
All interrelated - Urbanization of American Society, Growth of scale of social structure, technology change, more population and cultural complexity, more bureaucracy, families changing, work has changed
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Social control
Definition
conforming behavior is rewarded and deviant behavior is punished
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Tenets of the American dream
Definition
everyone can participate equally, reasonable to anticipate success, success is the result of one's own work, success is associated with virtue and merit
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Upper class
Definition
1-2% prestige in every way
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Upper middle class
Definition
15% conspicuous consumption very important more than any other class
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Vanuatu
Definition
very diverse country with many different languages and cultures
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Yanamamo
Definition
most violent society in the world
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absolute poverty
Definition
a minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below
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apartheid
Definition
based on race in south africa no longer as big
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ascribed status
Definition
a social position assigned to a person without regard for the person's talents
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attitude
Definition
opinion, feeling, tendency toward behavior, bottom of hourglass
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average family size
Definition
around 3 people typical in urban modern environments
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belief
Definition
cultural statement about what is real or not real
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bilineal
Definition
family lives through both
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burglary
Definition
breaking into a building to steal
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caste
Definition
a hereditary rank, usually religiously dictated
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caste india
Definition
still very important based on what family your born to
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characteristics of high crime rural areas
Definition
population turnover, poverty, presence of organized crime, rural community characteristic
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class
Definition
a group of people who have a similar level of economic resources.
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class system
Definition
a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility in the system
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cohabitation
Definition
the process of living together without marrying
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community
Definition
a place within society where people live and interact, middle of the hourglass, three functions: amplifies issues, how you understand culture,
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competition
Definition
all societies contains competition for resources
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concrete operations
Definition
connections between I and ME environment expands outside of family
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conformity
Definition
the act of going along with peers
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correspondence principle
Definition
the tendency of schools to promote values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class
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counties classified as
Definition
metropolitan, suburban, micropolitan
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credentialism
Definition
an increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field
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crime
Definition
deviance that violates a law
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cult
Definition
a small alternative faith community that represents either a new religion or a major innovation in an existing faith.
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culture
Definition
set of beliefs, values, norms, materials shared by members of society
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culture
Definition
a set of interrelated beliefs, values and norms shared by society
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denomination
Definition
a large organized religion that is not officially linked to the state or government
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deviance
Definition
behavior that violates the standards of conduct of expectations of a group
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differential opportunity
Definition
where we lives determines in part our opportunity to associate with different kinds
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ecclesia
Definition
a religious organization that claims to include most or all members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion
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ecological fallacy
Definition
generalizing to a whole group based on a few people
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education
Definition
the best predictor of social class, related to income and occupation
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egalitarian family
Definition
an authority pattern in which spouses are regarded as equals
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environmental justice
Definition
a claim that minorities are subjected to environmental hazards
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environmental movement founder
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt
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estate systems
Definition
a systems in which peasants are required to work land to pay back a debt
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esteem
Definition
the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation
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ethnocentrism
Definition
the opinion that one's own culture is superior to everyone else's culture
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extended family
Definition
three or more generations in same household
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family
Definition
a group of individuals related in some way - blood marriage
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farms
Definition
over $1000 in sales, farms are more productive, same size though, less family owned, older population are farmers, rural areas are hurting because of changes.
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formal operations
Definition
abstract thinking 12 through adulthood
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formal/informal social control
Definition
laws, prison, regulations (Formal)
gossip, family, friends (Informal)
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four ways to collect data
Definition
survey, observation, experiment, data
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framing
Definition
process by which individuals groups, manipulate perceptions of others
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functionalism
Definition
society is like a system and each part of the system has functions that each part does, as society increases in size it becomes more complex (Durkheim)
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functionalist definition of religion
Definition
the idea that religion unifies believers into a community through shared practices and a common set of beliefs relative to sacred things
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functions of deviance/crime
Definition
clarify moral boundaries, promote social unity, create social change
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functions of the family
Definition
reproduction, socialization, regulation, affection, status, money
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fundamentalism
Definition
rigid adherence to core religious doctrines, often accomplished by a literal application of scripture or historical beliefs to today's world.
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hidden curriculum
Definition
Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools
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highly diverse
Definition
everything is very different
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how do we become deviant/criminal
Definition
social class location, position, opportunity,
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human ecology
Definition
the area of study concerned with the inter relationship between people and the environment
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income
Definition
economic gain in the form of money
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index crime
Definition
the 8 types of crimes reported by the FBI - rape, murder, robbery, assault, arson
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influence
Definition
the ability of individuals and groups to achieve desired ends
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informal/formal control
Definition
formal- laws prison regulation
informal- gossip family friends
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innovation
Definition
accept goals but reject and or seek alternative opportunities to achieve goals
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issue
Definition
debate or disagreement about trend amongst groups in a society
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kinship
Definition
the state of being related to others
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labeling
Definition
based on symbolic interactionism what we define people as
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labeling theory
Definition
an approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others are not
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language
Definition
through words provides the "Frame" for how we perceive situations
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larceny
Definition
theft/stealing
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law
Definition
government social control
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lineage
Definition
important for inheritance and owning property
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mass society
Definition
everything is a franchise
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matriarchy
Definition
a society in which women dominate in family decisions
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matrilineal
Definition
family lives through mother
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monogamy
Definition
a form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married to each other
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monogamy
Definition
one man one woman
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norm
Definition
a cultural statement of expected behavior - what one should do in a situation
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nuclear/extended family
Definition
married couple and their children still living together, other members of a family but still live in the same household
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obedience
Definition
compliance with a higher autorities
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organized crime
Definition
the work of a group to commit a crime as a business
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patriarchal/matriarchal egalitarian
Definition
decisions made by either father, mother or both
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patriarchy
Definition
a society in which the male dominates the marriage
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patrilineal
Definition
family lives through male
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patrilineal/matrilineal descent
Definition
marriage in which only man/woman's relatives are important
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patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal
Definition
families live near father mother both
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polyandry
Definition
1 woman several men
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polygamy
Definition
a form of marriage where an individual may have several partners
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polygyny
Definition
1 man several woman
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poverty rate
Definition
official gvt. rate based on money needed for food and basic goods
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power and inequality theory of crime
Definition
street crime is enforced and looked down upon more than white collar crime
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pre-operational
Definition
learning of language and symboles 2-7 years old
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prestige
Definition
the amount of respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society
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profane
Definition
the ordinary and commonplace elements of life, as distinguished from the sacred.
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rationalization
Definition
symbolic interactionism
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relationships
Definition
primary-more long term more personal
secondary- more short term, less personal
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relative poverty
Definition
a standard that is disadvantaged compared to the majority
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religious belief
Definition
the statement to which members of a particular religion adhere
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retreatism
Definition
the rejection of cultural norms
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robbery
Definition
theft by force
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role taking
Definition
pretending to take attitudes or behaviors of a different status
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roles
Definition
what is expected behavior & attitudes
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sacred
Definition
elements beyond everyday life that inspire respect, awe and even fear
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sanction
Definition
a penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm
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sect
Definition
a relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it considers the original vision of the faith
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secularization
Definition
religion's diminishing influence in the public sphere, especially in politics and the economy.
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sensori motor
Definition
learning through direct experience under 2 years old
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serial monogamy
Definition
a form a marriage where one may have several wives but not at the same time
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slavery
Definition
one person owes another and uses them for labor
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social behavior
Definition
interaction between people symbols communication
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social class systems
Definition
based on economics and lifestyles
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social control
Definition
all societies have ways of preventing deviant behavior called sanctions
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social inequality
Definition
society reacts more negatively to blue collar than white collar crimes
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social mobility
Definition
the movement from one class to the other
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social movements
Definition
effort outside of government to change society
reform - most common, mainstream specific issue
revolution - want to change all of a society
expressive - movements of self expression
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socialization
Definition
process of learning/relearning symbols, beliefs, values in society

sources include family, school, friends, media, work
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society
Definition
the structure of relationships within culture is created and shared through regularized patterns of social interaction
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sociological imagination
Definition
the intellectual ability to see the relationships between individual behaviors and attitudes and large societal and cultural context
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sociology
Definition
scientific study of social, patterned, repeated behavior
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status
Definition
position in society, bottom of hour glass
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status inconsistency
Definition
income and occupation are not equal
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status symbol
Definition
representation of your status
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stigma
Definition
a label used to devalue members of certain social groups
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storytelling
Definition
process by which humans re-interpret what they see, hear, experience still most popular way information is shared
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strain
Definition
we are taught goals but denied opportunities to reach those goals based on functionalism
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stratification
Definition
the process that status in society is arranged, education is the best predictor, income and occupation are also indicators
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subculture
Definition
a group with distinctive beliefs that is located within a larger culture
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substantive definition of religion
Definition
the idea that religion has a unique content or substance relating to the sacred that separates it from other forms of knowledge and belief
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symbolic interactionism
Definition
a view of a theory which states that society is the product of the countless interactions between people and symbols
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symbols
Definition
behavior needs this to represent things
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teacher-expectancy effect
Definition
the impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on a student's actual achievements
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tenets of the American dream
Definition
Everyone can participate equally
Reasonable to anticipate success
Success is the result of individual characteristics
Success is associated with virtue and merit
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theory
Definition
a view or perspective bout how something works
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three functions of deviance
Definition
moral boundaries, social unity, social change
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tracking
Definition
the practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on basis of their test scores and other criteria
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trend
Definition
long term change top of the hour glass
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value
Definition
a cultural statement about what is important or valuable
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victimeless crimes
Definition
the exchange of illegal goods
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wealth
Definition
economic assest
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