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the scientific study of social behavior and human groups |
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An awareness of the relationship between and individual and the wider society, both today and in the past |
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| The body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation |
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| the study of the social features of humans and the ways in which they interact and change |
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| in sociology, a set of statements that seeks to explain problems actions, or behavior |
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VERSTEHEN
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| the German word for "understanding" or "insight", used to stress the need for sociologists to take into account the subjective meanings people attach to their actions |
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| a construct or model for evaluating specific cases |
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| the division of an individuals identity into two or more social realities |
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| sociological investigation that concentrates on large scale phenomena or entire civilizations |
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| sociological investigation that stresses the study of small groups, often through experimental means |
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| non-economic goods, such as family background and education, which are reflected in a knowledge of language and arts |
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| the collective benefit of social networks which are built on reciprocal trust |
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| an open stated and conscious function |
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| an unconscious or unintended function that may reflect hidden purposes |
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| an element or process of a society that may disrupt the social system or reduce its stability |
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| a sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources, including housing money, access to services and political representation |
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| a sociological approach that views inequality in gender as central to all behavior and organization |
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| the sending of messages through the use of gestures facial expressions and postures |
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| a view of social interaction in which people are seen as theatrical performers |
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| the use of the discipline of sociology with the specific intent of yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizations |
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| sociological inquiry conducted with the objective of gaining a more profound knowledge of the fundamental aspects of social phenomena (pure sociology) |
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| the worldwide integration of government policies, culture, social movements and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas |
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| a condition in which members of society have differing amounts of wealth, power and prestige |
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| specialized language used by members of a group or subculture |
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| the use of two or more languages in a particular setting such as the workplace or schoolroom treating each language as equally legitimate |
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| a subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture |
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| the viewing of peoples behavior from the perspective of their own culture |
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| a common practice or belief found in every culture |
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| the totality of learned socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behavior |
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| the worldwide media industry that standardizes the goods and services demanded by consumers |
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| a period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions |
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| the process of introducing a new idea or object to a culture through discovery or invention |
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| the combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not exist before |
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| an abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture includes gestures and other nonverbal communication |
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| Governmental social control |
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| the physical or technological aspects or our daily lives (food, raw material, man-made) |
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| norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of society (do not kill, don't do child abuse) |
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| ways of using material objects as well as cutoms, beliefs, philosophies, governments, and patterns of communication |
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| an established standard of behavior maintained by a society |
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| a penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm |
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| the feeling of surprise and disorientation that people experience when they encounter cultural practices that are different from their own |
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| the polarization of society over controversial cultural elements |
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| the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society |
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| the process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality |
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| a set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social, economic and political interests |
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| the tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others |
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| a norm governing everyday behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern |
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| a norm that has been written down |
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a norm that is generally understood but not precisely recorded
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| a hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping our interpretation of reality |
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| a fairly large number of people who live in the same territory are relatively independent of people outside their area and participate in a common culture |
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| the systematic study of how biology affects human social behavior |
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a segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of "Mores", "Folkways", and "Values" that differs from the pattern of the larger society
(ex:Hippies) |
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| a gesture, object or word that forms the basis of human communication |
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| cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires |
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| a collective conception of what is considered good desirable and proper or bad undesirable and improper in a culture |
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