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Personal trouble

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A problem where only the values and goals of one family or individual are threatened

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Sociology

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The scientific study of societies and human social behavior

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Public issue

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Social problems that impact a large number of people. Are matters of debate. Collective and structural solutions are needed

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Social problem

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An influential group defines a social condition as threatening its values when the condition affects a large number of people and when the condition can be remedied by collective action

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Values

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Peoples ideas about what is good or bad and right or wrong

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Norms

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More concrete than values. Rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior

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Deviance

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Behaviors or characteristics that violate important group norms and as a consequence they are reacted to with social disapproval

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Social institutions

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Relatively stable clusters of social relationships that involve people working together to meet some basic needs of society

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Subculture

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A group within a culture that shares some of the beliefs, values, and Norma of the larger culture but also has some that are distinctly its own

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Ethnocentrism

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The tendency to view ones own culture or subculture as the best and to judge other cultures or subcultures in comparison to it

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Power

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The ability of one group to realize it’s will even in the face of resistance from other groups

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Authority

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Legitimate power that is obeyed because people believe it is right and proper that they obey

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Sociological imagination

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He ability to understand the relationship between what is happening in people’s in people’s personal lives and social forces that surround them

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Theory

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A set of statements that explains the relationships between phenomenon

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Functionalist

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Society is a system made up of a number of interrelated parts each performing a function that continues into the operation of the whole

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Conflict perspective

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The idea that society consists of different groups who struggle with one another to attain the scarce societal resources that are considered to be valuable

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Interest group

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Is a group whose members share distinct and common concerns and who benefit from similar social policies and practices

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Interactionist perspective

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Focuses everyday social interaction among individuals rather than on large societal structures such as politics and education

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Definition of the situation

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People’s perceptions and interpretations of what is important in a situation and what actions are appropriate

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Research

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The systematic examination of empirical data

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Hypothesis

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Tentative statements that can be tested regarding relationships between two or more factors

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Science

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Is a method of obtaining objective and systemic knowledge through observation

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Sample

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Elements that are taken from a group or populations and that serves as a source of data. Should be representative

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One factor has an effect on or produces change in another factor

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Causality

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Social policy

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Laws administrative procedures and other formal and informal social practices that are intended to promote social changes focused on alleviating particular social problems

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Social movement

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A collective organized effort to promote or resist social change through some noninatitutionalized or unconventional means