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| the unequal distribution of scarce desirables based on chronoligical age |
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| the absence of enough moner to seure lifes necessities. |
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| a status within a social structure occupied because of an individuals efforts. |
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| persons born during the same time period in a particular population. |
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| a set of beliefs, norms, and values used to justify aged based prejudice and discrimination. |
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| the number of deaths er one thousand persons in a specific age group. |
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| the number of live births per one thousand women in a specific age-group |
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| the distribution of people of different ages within a society |
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| a society whose sudsistence relies primarily on the cultivation of crops with plows drawn by animals. |
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| the type of social movement that seeks onle limited changes in individuals |
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| a social condition where norms are weak,conflicting, or absent. |
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| anticaatory socialization |
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| the process of preparing oneself for learning new norms values attitudes and bahaviors |
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| a status within a social structure that is not earned or chosen, but it is assigned. |
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| the intergration of a social or ethnic minority into a society. |
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| the type of political system controlled by nonelected officials who gernerally permit some degree of individual freedom |
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| power accepted as legitimate y those subjected to it. |
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| ideas concerning the nature of reality |
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| the famililial arrangement in which ongeriteance and descent are passed equally through both parents. |
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| the attribution of behavioral differences to inherited physical characteristics. |
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| places over 100000 residents that are not the largest cities in their metropolitan areas and hace experienced double digit population growth in recent decades. |
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| formal organization based on rationality and efficency. |
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| a thorough recorded investigation of a smallgroup incident or community |
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| the idea that events occur in a predicatble non random mannerand that one event leads to another |
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| legitimate power based on an individuals personal characteristics. |
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| a life encompassiong organization to which all members of a society belong |
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| a piblic reliefion that expresses a strong tie between a deity and a culture |
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| a sence of identification with the goals and interests of the members of the ones own social class. |
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| questions a person must answer by choosing from a limited predeterminded set of responces. |
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| the process of thinking knowing or mentally processing information |
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| a marriage like living arrangement without the legal obligations of a formal marraige |
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| a marriage like living arrangement without the legal obligations of a formal marraige |
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| the type of capitalism that emphasizes interest of employees, customers and society. |
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| a social process that provides rewards to people based on how thier perfomance compares with that of others |
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| a form of social interaction in which indiciduals or groups work against one another to obtain a larger share of the valuables |
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| bahvior matchinggroup expectations |
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| consolidated metropolitan statistical area |
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| an urban area composed of two or more sets of neighboring pmsa's |
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| the situation that occurs when organizational rules and regulations become more important than organizational goals. |
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| a number of people who are in contact with one another share some ways of thinking feeling and behaving take one anothers behavior into account and have one or more interests or goals in common |
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| a situation in which pressures toward uniformity discourage members of a group from ecpressing thier reservations about group decisions |
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| the combination of professional services organications traing academies and technological resources that are committed to the treatment management and prevention of disease |
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| marraige between people with differing social characteristics |
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| unemployment that is not measured because of discouraged workers who have stopped looking for jobs and part time workers looking for full time work. |
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| a change from one occupation to antoher at the same general status |
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| organizations designed to provide supporty for the dying and their families |
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| the theoretical perspective that places human needs and goals at the center of sociology |
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| The spontaneous and unpredictable part of one self |
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| hypothesis of a linguistic relativity |
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| the idea that ones perception of reality is based on language |
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| cultural guidelines publicly embraces by members of a society |
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| a set of ideas used to justiy and defend the interests and actions of this in power of a society |
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| a group organized to achieve some specific shared goal by influencing political decision making |
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| interlocking directorates |
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| members of corporations sitting on one anothers board of directors |
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| a variable that influences the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable |
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| intragenerational mobility |
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| social mobility hat ocurs from one generation to the next |
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| the removal of criminals from society |
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| a variable that causes something to happen |
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| a society whose subsistence is based promarily on the application of schience and technology to the production of goods and services. |
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| the number of deaths among infants under one year of age per one thousand live births |
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| a group in which personal relationships are guided by rules regulations rituals and sentiments not provided for by the formal organization |
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| genetically inherited, complex patterns of behavior that alwaus appear among members of a particular species under appropriate enviromental conditions |
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| an approach to education based on student teacher collaboration. |
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| the assumption by functionalists that a society both changes and maintains most of its original structure over time |
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| the idea that the nature of society is based on the society's economy |
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| a suburban unit speializing in a particular economic activity |
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| the theory of power distribution that sees society in the control of a relatively few individuals and organizations |
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| marraige within ones own group as required by social norms |
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| a group of people who are socially indentified by their unique charachteristics related to culture or nationality |
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| the study of the processes people develop and use in understanding the routine behaviors expected of themselves and others in everyday life |
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| attempts to eliminate all possible contaminating influences on thevariables being studied |
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| the maximum rate at which women can reproduce |
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| a theoretical perspective that links the lives of women and men to the structure of gender relationships within society. |
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| a measurement of the number of children born to a woman. |
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| a society that rests on tradition, cultural and social consensus, family, and emphasis on the sacred. |
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| the theoretical perspective that emphasizes the contributions made by each part of society. |
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| the rejection of secularization and the adherence to traditional religious beliefs. |
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| tonnies's term for the tye of society based on tradition kinship |
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| the socially accepted killing of the ederly |
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| the theory of a crowd behavior that emphasizes the irrationality of crowds that is created by participants stimulating one another to higher levels of emotional intensity. |
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| presumes that most aging people maintain a consistency with their past lives and use their life experiences to intentionally continue to develop in selfdetermined chanels |
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| the group in the experiment that is not exposed to the variable |
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| the idea that conformity to social norms depends on the precense of a strong bond between individuals and society |
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| the theory that crowds form by people who deliberatly congregate with others whom they know to be like minded |
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| a non buercratic classroom structure in which students study in groups |
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| the teir of the occupational structure composed of large firms dominating thier industries |
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| economic benifits governments regularly give to corporations |
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| sn orgsnization owned by shareholders who have limited liability and limited control over organizational affairs. |
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| a statistical measure in which a change in one cariable is associated with the change in another variable. |
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| a type of fad that can have seriouse consequences for its adopters |
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| a type of fad that can have seriouse consequences for its adopters |
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| a sysem for controlling crime comprised of police and courts |
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| a temporary collection of people who share an immediate interest. |
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| a religious organization whose characteristics are not drawn from existing religious traditions within a society. |
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| a regard to intelligence tests the unfair measurement of the cognitive abilities of people in some social categories. |
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| the idea that any given aspect of a particular culture should be evaluated in relation to its place in the larger culture contect of which it i a part rather than according to some allefed universal standard that is applies across all cultures. |
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| cultural transmission theory |
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| The theory that deviance is part of a subculture transmitted through socialization. |
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