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| Extraction of raw materials from the Earth. |
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| Transformation of raw materials into goods. |
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| Supplying of services to consumers and businesses. |
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| Country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
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| Social and economic measures, policies and systems characterized by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production. |
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| Country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |
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| Desire to earn money or buy goods rather than by other values. |
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| Means through which power is acquired and exercised by some people and groups. |
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| Power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities |
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| Federal, state, and local officials represent views of their constituents. |
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| Recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern. |
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| Unrecognized and unintended consequences. |
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| Forms of knowledge, skills, education, and advantages that a person has, which give them a higher status in society. |
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| Resources based on group membership, relationships, networks of influence and support. |
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| Command over economic resources (cash, assets). |
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| Scientific research strategy that prioritizes material, behavioral and etic processes in the explanation of the evolution of human socio-cultural systems. |
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| Assignment of students to specific courses and educational programs based on their test scores, previous grades, or both. |
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| People who are viewed as sick are temporarily absolved of their responsibilities and duties due to circumstances that are perceived by society as beyond their control. |
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| People who live from just above to just below the poverty line. |
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| Relationship b/t the parts of society; How aspects of society are functional and adaptive. |
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| Use of symbols; Face to face interactions. |
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| Karl Marx - Competition of scarce resources; How the elite control the poor and weak. |
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| True about Capitalist workers? |
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| They are at risk of being replaced by machines or cheap labor. |
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| Individual power resides in a persons position within? |
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| Upper class, Wealth result of? |
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| Respect or regard with which a person is regarded by others. |
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| Part time or temporary, found in colleges and universities, federal gov and health care, involves subcontracting. |
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| Process by which some characteristics of a profession are eliminated. |
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| Sociologists term a group that is advantaged and has superior resources and rights within a society. |
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| culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males Found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with "femininity" and "masculinity". |
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| social cohesion found in industrial Societies, in which people perform very specialized tasks and feel united by their mutual dependence. |
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| Herbert Gans' typology of urban dwellers, those who live in tightly knit neighborhoods that resemble small towns. |
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| Banks have policies of refusing to make loans for housing and businesses to persons residing in low-income or blighted communities. |
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| Strongly influences a person' s behavior and social attitudes, regardless of whether that individual is an actual member. |
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| Systematic practices developed by social groups to encourage conformity to social norms. |
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| People accept society's goals but adopt disapproved means for achieving them. |
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| The greater the degree of social harm, the more the offender should be punished. |
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| Satisfied with their present condition are LESS likely to seek social change. |
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| Voluntary, often spontaneous activity that is engaged in by a large number of people and that typically violates dominant group norms and values. |
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| Relatively large number of people who are in one another's immediate vicinity. |
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| Traditions, beliefs, language and philosophies . |
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| Considered to be the founder of sociology. French philosopher (1798-1857)described sociology as a new science that would engage in the study of society. |
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| C. Wright Mills, the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. |
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| University of Chicago and Atlanta University |
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| First U.S. departments of sociology. |
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| Very strong internal sense of group identity that makes them intolerant of others, moderate division of labor, and strong family relationships. |
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| the "effect" and the independent variable as the "cause." |
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| Karl Marx believed in order for societies to produce social change and a better society. |
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| Unintended or hidden function of an institution or organization. |
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