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| the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern |
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| the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern |
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| personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life |
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| anticipatory socialization |
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| learning that helps a person achieve a desired position |
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| a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort (Dr., Professor, etc.) |
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| a social position a person receives at at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life (Mr., Mrs., etc.) |
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| a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life (Being a mother, father, etc.) |
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| conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses |
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| tension among the roles connected to a single status |
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| a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
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| a shared cultural heritage |
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| assigning students to different types of educational programs |
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| belief based on conviction rather than on scientific evidence |
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| a social institution involving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred |
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| the process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
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| a perspective reccognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions |
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| The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male |
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| the recognized violation of cultural norms |
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| the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture |
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| people whose bodies (including genitals) have both female and male characteristics |
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| the waus of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a people's way of life |
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| a religious organization that is largely outside a society's cultural traditions |
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| a religious organization that stands apart from the larger society |
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| attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior |
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| people who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other |
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| when sociologists gather data only form men but then use that information to draw conclusions about all people |
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| Failing to consider gender at all when doing sociological research |
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| when students with disabilities are included in the overall educational program |
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| the act of starting a Charter school |
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| refers to physical things, everything from armchairs to zippers |
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| consists of the ideas created by members of a society |
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| later offenses by people previously convicted of crimes |
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| married couples live with or near the husband's family |
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| couples live with or near the wife's family |
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| is a "take charge" leadership style that demands obedience |
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| leadership style that includes everyone in decision making |
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| leadership style that lets the group function mostly on its own |
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| organizations people are forced to join (hospitals, prisons, etc.) |
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| organizations that pay people for their efforts (businesses and government agencies) |
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| organizations that people consider worthwhile (voluntary associations) |
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| Structural-Functional Approach |
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| System of parts. Moral Agreement. Orderly Operation |
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| Inequality. Benefits & Harms people. Conflict leads to change. |
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| Symbolic-Interaction Approach |
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| Process. Interaction through symbolic communication. Variable & Changing Reality. Socially constructed situations |
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| the study of society that focuses on discovering the meanings people attach to their social world |
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| a relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another |
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| a relationship in which two (or more) variables change together |
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| study on what middle-class and working class women wanted in a husband |
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| a research method for investigating cause and effect under highly controlled conditions |
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| a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities |
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| traces kinship through males, so that fathers pass property onto their sons |
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| people define only the mother's side as kin and property passes from mothers to daughters |
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| a system tracing descent through both men and women |
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| Taught a lesson of discrimination by dividing her class evenly by eye color |
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| marriage between people of the same social category |
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| marriage between people of different social categories |
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| married couple lives apart from both sets of parents |
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