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| people who own the means of production in industrial society |
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| the view that society is composed of groups with clashing interests who engage in a struggle over control of valuable social resources. |
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| functionalist perspective |
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| a view that society is a relatively stable and orderly system composed of interdependent and interrelated parts. |
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| the process by which societies are transformed from agricultural- based economy to a manufacturing-based economy. |
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| the largely unintended and inrecognized consequences of an activity or social institution. |
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| a focus on the social institutions and large scale social processes that shape society as a whole. |
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| the intended, expected, or overtly recognized consequences of an activity or social institution. |
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| a focus on the dyanmics and meanings of face-to-face interactions between people and small groups. |
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| people who own only their labor power, which they sell to the bourgeoisie. |
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| the undesirable consequences of an institution or activity for the social system. |
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| patterned ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling beyond the individual. |
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| the stable, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group or society. |
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| a large social grouping of people who occupy and interact together in the same geographic area; are organized by and subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations; and whose members share a sense of identity, loyalty, and purpose. |
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| the systematic study of human society and social interaction. |
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| the ability to see the general in the particular |
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| a view of society as the ongoing product of the everydya interactions and shared meanings of people and groups. |
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| a set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how two or more social phenomena are related |
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| a basic overall image or paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society. |
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| the process by which an increasing proportion of society's population lives in cities instead of rural areas. |
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