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| the process that teaches the norms, values and other aspects of the culture to new group members |
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Nature - the belief that genetic and biological heredity are the primary causes of human behavior
Nurture: the belief that the way in which we think, feel and behave are the results of our environment |
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| family, social class, neighborhood, religion, education, media |
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| the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors and abandoning old ones (used in total institutions) |
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| places in which the most effective forms of resocialization can occur because they isolate people from outside influences so they can be controlled |
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| Erikson's eight stages of development |
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| infancy, toddlerhood, preschooler, elementary school, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood. In each stage you have a crisis to get over |
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| Stages of moral development |
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| preconventional, conventional, postconventional |
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| moral development, moral decisions based on seeking pleasure over pain |
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| moral development, use of norms and rules to determine what is right and wrong |
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| moral development, morality based on abstract principles |
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| Meads stages of development |
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| birth to 2, copying what you see (mead) |
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| preschool, begin to play roles of others separate from themselves (mead) |
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| (school age and above), begin to understand that others have expectations and demands, anticipate the roles of others in games |
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Me: objective part of self, questions how others may interpret our actions
I: active subject, sense of who we are, what do I want? |
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| relationships that exist only under specific conditions (secondary groups of short durations) |
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| groups that consist of two or more people who interact with one another and share a common identity |
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| the web or ties you have with others |
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| sociological concept that refers to the individual and collective resources available to a person. |
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| small, intimate and long lasting (family and close friends) |
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| formal, superficial and last for a short or fixed time (civic group) |
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| group consisting of only two people, very close relationships |
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| group consisting of three people, the weakest group size, mediation, alliances and competition are likely |
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| groups that you use to evaluate yourself |
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| a group to which we feel an affinity or closeness |
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| a group from which we feel disconnceted |
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| feeling that a persons group is superior to others |
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| permissive, authoritarian and authoritative |
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| parents provide high levels of support but an inconsistent enforcement of the rules |
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| children experience high levels of social control but low levels of emotional support |
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| parents listen to their children's input while consistently enforcing the parents' rules |
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| Characteristics of organizations |
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| division of labor, concentration of power, methods of succession. |
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| Normative, coercive and utilitarian |
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| exist to achieve a worthwhile goal |
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| people are forced to join |
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| people receive wages in exchange for work |
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| Characteristics of bureaucracies |
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| division of labor, hierarchy of authority, technical qualifications, impersonality, rules and regulations |
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| autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire |
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| determines the group policies and assignes roles |
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| strives to set group policy by discussion and agreement |
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| leads by absence and may not want to be a leader at all |
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| cohesiveness, external threat and a strong leader |
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| wealth, power and prestige |
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| wealth, power and prestige |
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| moving within the same status category |
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| moving from one social class to another |
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| residual, marginal, absolute, relative and near poor |
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| chronic, multigenerational poverty |
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| occurs when a person lacks stable employment |
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| so severe that one lacks the resources to survive |
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| occurs when we compare ourselves to those around us |
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| people who live above the poverty line but close to it |
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| upper, upper middle, middle, working, lower, and urban underclass |
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| very small in number that posses significant wealth (1%) |
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| high income members of society, well educated (15%) |
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| high school diplomas and lesser levels of education (30%) |
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| feeling poverty, paycheck to check |
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| homeless and chronically unemployed, part of the lower class |
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| What keeps countries poor? |
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| Conflict, national resource trap, landlocked, bad governance |
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| used to explain migration, talks about how it depends on the supply and demand for labor in the sending and receiving areas. |
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| rentiers, entrepreneurs, petite bourgeoise, bureaucrats, craftsmen, semi-skilled manual workers, unskilled workers |
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| the world and its international economy are becoming more and more intertwined. |
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| the best talent leaves poor countries and thereby provides an even greater advantage to wealthy countries |
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| powerful nations use loans and economic power to maintain control over poor nations |
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| chattel, debt bondange, contract |
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| a slave is considered property |
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| someone borrows money in order to repay a different debt and works off the new one |
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| a person signs a work contract, receiving food and shelter from an employer but is usually threatened when attempting to leave |
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| number of births for every 1,000 people each year |
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