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| A population that is organized in a cooperative manner to carry out the major functions of life. |
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| The recurring patterns of behavior that people create through their interactions, their exchange of information and their relationships. |
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| Any collection of people who interact on the basis of shared expectations regarding one another's behavior. |
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| A socially defined position in a group. |
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| The way a society defines how an individual is to behave in a particular status. |
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| A society's expectations about how a role should b performed, together with the individual's perceptions of what is required in performing that role. |
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| A more or less stable structure of statuses and roles devoted to meeting the basic needs of people in a society. |
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| The processes whereby sets of social activities performed by one social institution are divided among different institutions. |
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| A society whose primary means of subsistence is herding animals and moving with them over a wide expanse of grazing land. |
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| A society whose primary means of subsistence is raising crops, which it plants and cultivates, often developing a n extensive system for watering the crops. |
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| The process whereby the members of a society are sorted into different statuses. |
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| A society in which social mobility is possible for everyone. |
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| A society in which social mobility does not exist. |
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| A system for organizing the production of goods and services that is based on the markers, private property, and the business firm or company. |
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| A term used to refer to the close, personal relationships of small groups and communities. |
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| A term used to refer to the well-organized but impersonal relationships among the members of modern societies. |
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| A small group characterized by intimate, face-to-face associations. |
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| A social group whose members have a shared goal or purpose but are not bound together by strong emotional ties. |
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| Conflict that occurs when in order to perform one role well, a person must violate the expectations associated with another role. |
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| Conflict that occurs when the expectations associated with a single role are contradictory. |
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| A position or rank that is assigned to an individual at birth and cannot be changed. |
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| A position or rank that is earned through the efforts of the individual. |
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| A status that takes precedence over all of an individual's other statuses. |
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| A society's set of political structures. |
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| The largest territory within which a society's political institutions can operate without having to face challenges to their sovereignty |
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