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| The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society |
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| Population of people living in the same geographical area who share a culture and a common identity and whose memebers fall under that same political authority |
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| Stabele set of roles statuses groups, such as edu, family, politics, religion, economy. That proviees a foundation for behavior in some major area of social life |
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| Sociological imaginiation |
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| The ability to see the impact of social foces on our private lives |
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| Individuals are less likely to act when there are more people preasent |
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| set of people who interact more or less regularly and who are conscious of their identity as a unit |
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| Individuals are together over a relativly long period and hav direct contact and feel an emotional connection |
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| Relativily impersonal that is established to perform a specific task |
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| Any named social position that people can occupy |
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| social position acquired thorugh our own efforts or accomplishments or taken on voluntarily |
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| social positon aqcuqired at birth or taken on involuntarily later in life |
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| set of expectations-rights, obligations,behaviors associated with a particular status |
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| frustration people feel when the demands of one role they are expected to fulfill clash with the demands of another role |
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| language, values, vleifs, rules behaviors that characterize a society |
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| assumption or prediction that in itself causes the expected event to occur, thus seeming to confirm the prophecys accuracy |
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| tendency to judge other cultures using ones own as a standard |
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| groups that work to have their moral concerns translated into law |
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| social respnce that punsishes or otherwise discourages violations of a social norm |
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| unquesetionaed cultural beleif that cannot be proved wrong no matter what happens to dispute it |
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| somthing that is used to represnet or stand for something else |
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| social construction of reality |
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| process through which the members of a society discover, make known, reaffirm and alter a collective version of facts and "truth" |
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| culturally defined standard or rule of conduct |
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| highly codified formal systemtized norm that brings sevvere punsihment when violated |
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| informal norm that is mildly punished when violated |
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| standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcomes |
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| unintended consequences of activities that help some part of the social system |
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| intednded ovcious consequences of activities designed to help some part of hte social system |
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| artifiacts of a society, which represent adaptations to the social and physical enviroment |
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