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| Resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him. |
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| A form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. |
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| Refers to motivating staff by punishment and is predicated on fear of losing status, positions, bonuses or jobs. |
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| A form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy. |
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| Democracy is a form of government in which all citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. |
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| A political system where there is more than one center of power. |
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| A small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, and access to decision-making of global consequence. |
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| The term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. |
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| Those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for a religious, political or ideological goal, deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians), and are committed by non-government agencies. |
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| All media technologies, including the Internet, television, newspapers, and radio, which are used for mass communications, and to the organizations which control these technologies. |
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| A relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological, cultural, or historical descent. |
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| A social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. |
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| A family group consisting of a father and mother and their children, who share living quarters |
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| A family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships. |
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| A family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one household. |
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1. To ensure that new babies actually survive to become adult members of society.
2. To regulate sexual activity.
3. To ensure that children are satisfactorily socialized into the norms and values of society.
4. To provide economic support for other family members.
5. To satisfy our emotional needs for love and security.
6. To provide us with a sense of place and position in our society. |
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| Having only one mate at any one time. |
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| A marriage which includes more than two partners. |
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| A form of marriage in which a man has two or more wives at the same time. |
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| A form of marriage in which a woman has two or more husbands at the same time. |
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| The practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group, rejecting others on such bases as being unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships. |
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| The marrying outside of a specific group. |
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| A marriage between individuals who are, in some culturally important way, similar to each other. |
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| A term referring to the societal system in which a married couple resides with or near the wife's parents. |
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| A term referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents. |
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| The societal postmarital residence in which couples, upon marriage, live with or near either the husband's parents or the wife's parents. |
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| A system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage. |
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| Descent is established by tracing descent exclusively through females from a founding female ancestor. |
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| Descent is reckoned through both father and mother, without unilineal descent groups. |
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| A social system in which the role of the male as the primary authority figure is central to social organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property. |
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| A society in which females, especially mothers, have the central roles of political leadership and moral authority. |
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| An arrangement whereby two people decide to live together on a longterm or permanent basis in an emotionally and/or sexually intimate relationship. |
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| A term used in medical sociology concerning the social aspects of falling ill and the privileges and obligations that accompany it. |
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| The social process by which any trade or occupation transforms itself into a true "profession of the highest integrity and competence. |
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| The problems with health care are affecting many Americans: the uninsured and insured, the unemployed and working, children and retirees, single individuals and families. From lack of access to preventative care and the high cost of medical treatment, there are many health care problems facing Americans. By sharing our experiences and problems in regards to health care issues, hopefully we can find a better solution for fixing our health care system. |
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| The process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one. |
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| A post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism (or agrarianism) toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance. |
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| The economic and/or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. |
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| A society in which the buying and selling of goods and services is the most important social and economic activity. |
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1. Technological and Economic Changes
2. Modernization
3. Urbanization
4. Bureaucratization
5. Conflict and Competition
6. Political and Legal Power
7. Ideology
8. Diffusion
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| He is best known for his distinction between two types of social groups: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, based on the conception of "essential" or instinctive will, which focuses on the whole purpose, and "arbitrary" or rational will, which is based on self-interest. |
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| Karl Marx on social change |
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| Social change was about conflict between opposing interests, driven, in the background, by economic forces. |
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| Emphasised the importance, for understanding the development of capitalism, of cultural influences embedded in religion. |
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| A sociologist who studies American patterns of consumption, globalization, metatheory, and modern and postmodern social theory. |
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| When a culture possesses the characteristics of a fast-food restaurant. It is a reconceptualization of rationalization, or moving from traditional to rational modes of thought, and scientific management |
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| The process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade. |
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Social processes and events which do not reflect existing social structure (laws, conventions, and institutions), but which emerge in a "spontaneous" way.
It might also be defined as action which is neither conforming (in which actors follow prevailing norms) nor deviant (in which actors violate those norms). |
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| Crowd that gathers around a specific event and its members have little interaction with one another. |
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| Crowd that gathers for a socially sanctioned purpose. |
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| Crowd that gathers specifically for the purpose of letting out emotions. |
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| Crowd that focuses on a specific action or goal. |
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| Alternative social movement |
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| Type of social movement with limited change to specific individuals. |
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| Redemptive social movement |
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| Type of social movement with radical change to specific individuals. |
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| Reformative social movement |
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| Type of social movement with limited change to everyone. |
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| Revolutionary social movement |
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| Type of social movement with radical change to everyone. |
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