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Group oriented suicide (Heavens Gate)
The sacrificing of ones life for the good of the group. |
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Wanting things to be uniform.
George Riter's term for the process by which the principles of fast food restaurants are coming to dominate more and more sectores of American Society. |
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| Relatively unimportant rules that if violated are not severly punished. |
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The Book "Protestant and the ethic spirit of capitalism."
Weber countered Marx's emphasis on material economic concerns by showing how ideaolgy shapes the economy.
Famous for his core concepts "power, ideology, charisma, bureaucracy, and social change" |
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| A variable that is influenced by the effect of another variable (the independent variable). |
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| The patterned and recurrent relationships among people and parts in a social organization. |
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| Important norms, the violation of whcih results in severe punishment. |
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| Small groups characterized by intimate face-to-face interaction. |
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| Large, impersonal, and formally organized groups. |
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| The conception of society as a social system characterized by cohesion, consensus, cooperation, reciprocity, stability, and persistence. |
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| A view of society that posits conflict as a normal feature of social life, influencing the distribution of power and the direction and magnitude of social change. |
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| The incorrect belief that throughout U.S. history, disadvantaged groups have gained their share of power, prosperity, and respectability without violence. |
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| The process of learning the culture. |
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| The universal tendency to deprecate the ways of people from other societies as wrong, old-fashioned, or immoral and to think of the ways of one's own group as superior (as the only right way). |
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| The knowledge that the members of a social organization share. |
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| Cultural rules that specify approprate and inappropriate behavior (in other words, the shared expectations for behavior). |
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| The shared criteria used in evaluating objects, ideas, acts, feelings, or events as to their relative desirability, merit, or correctness. |
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| A relatively cohesive cultural system that varies in form and substance from the dominant culture. |
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| A subculture that fundamentally opposes the dominant culture. |
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| Mead's term referring to people who are most important in determining a child's behavior. |
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| Ideological Social Control |
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| The efforts by social organizations to control members by controlling their minds. Societies accomplish this, typically, through the socialization process. |
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| Behavior that violates the expectations of society. |
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| The explanation of deviant behavior that stresses the importance of the society in defining what is illegal and in assigning deviant status to particular individuals, which in turn dominates their identities and behaviors. |
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| A set of ideas that explains a range of human behavior and a variety of social and societal events. |
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| The original illegal act preceding the successful application of the deviant label. |
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| Deviant behavior that is a consequence of the successful application of the deviant label. |
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| The view that the poor are qualitatively different in values and lifestyles from the rest of society and that these cultural differences explain continued poverty. |
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| Occurs when people are ranked in a hierarchy that differentiates them as superior or inferior. |
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| Shared cultural heritage. |
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| A group socially defined on the basis of a presumed common genetic heritage resulting in distinguishing physical characteristics. |
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| A form of social organization in which males dominate females. |
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| In Marxian theory, the idea that the oppressed may hold beliefs damaging to their interests. |
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| Barriers that restrict social interaction to the members of a particular social class. |
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| Movement by an individual from one social class or status group to another. |
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| Invisible barriers that limit women's mobility in organizations. |
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| The belief that human behavior is controlled by some force, whether genetic, economic, or political. Taken to the extreme, deterministic theories leave no room for human beings to adapt to and change social structures to meet their needs. |
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| Marx - What kind of theorist? |
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Conflict
Those in power keep the powerless down.
Competition, conflict, domination, subordination |
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| Emile Durkheim - What kind of theorist? |
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Order Model (Functionalism)
Cohesion, Consensus, Cooperation, reciprocity, stability |
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Cultural rules that are specify appropriate and inappropriate behavior
(The shared expectations for behavior) |
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| Durkheims Study on suicide. (WHO) |
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| Single people, Childless, City dwellers, Protestants. |
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George Ritzer
Coined what phrase? |
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| Social Darwinism / Survival of the fittest. |
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| Receipt by the rich of financial aid or services from the government. |
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