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| the analysis of social life which focuses on the broad features of society |
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| the analysis of social life which focuses on social interaction |
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| the ways people interact with one another |
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| the framework that surrounds us that gives us direction and sets limits on behavior |
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| according to Weber, a large group of people who rank close to one another in wealth, prestige, and power |
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| the position that someone occupies in society or in a social group |
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| all the statuses or positions that an individual occupies |
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| positions an individual either inherits at birth or receives involuntarily later in life |
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| positions that are earned |
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| items used to identify a status |
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| a status that takes precedence over all the rest |
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| ranking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others |
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| the behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a status |
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| people who have something in common and who believe that what they have in common is significant |
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| the organized, usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs |
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| the major tasks that a society must fulfill if it is to survive |
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| the degree to which members of a group or a society feel united by shared values and other social bonds |
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| Durkheim's term for the unity |
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| the splitting of a group’s or society’s tasks into specialties |
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| Durkheim’s term for interdependence |
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| a type of society in which life is intimate |
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| assumptions of what people are like, whether true or false |
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| a type of society that is dominated by impersonal relationships |
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| the ways in which people use their bodies to give messages to others |
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| pioneered by Erving Goffman |
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| people’s efforts to control the impressions that others receive of them |
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| where performances are given |
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| where people rest from their performances |
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| the ways in which someone performs a role |
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| conflicts that someone feels between roles to different entities |
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| conflicts that someone feels within a role |
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| the term used to refer how people use social setting to communicate information about the self |
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