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What are troubles?

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Caused by personal shortcomings related to motivation, attitude, character, etc

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What are Issues?

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Societal matters that impact many people, can only be explained by larger social forces

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What is Emile Durkheim known for?

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How solidarity affects the suicide rate in a society

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What is sociology?

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The systematic and scientific study of society

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Father of sociology

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August Comte

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Sociological imagination

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A perspective that allows us to consider how outside forces, especially the time and place we were born and live, shape our life story.

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Symbolic interaction perspective

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Focuses on how human beings use and interpret symbols to communicate and forge a sense of self. A symbol is something that we attach meaning to and use to communicate.

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Structural functionalist perspective

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The “VCR” approach. Every part of society is necessary and functional.

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Conflict perspective

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Society is shaped by groups who struggle with one another for valuable resources. It is conflict that holds society together.

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Hypothesis

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a testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables (it is a prediction about the variables)

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variable

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a factor that varies or changes

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Population

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Who you want to study

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Sample

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all the individuals intended to represent the entire population to be studied

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Scientific method

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A carefully planned research process with the goal of generating observations and data that can be verified by others.

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Subculture

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People who share some aspects of the dominant culture but share a unique outlook (anchor)

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Culture

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The way of life of a people

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Ethnocentrism

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A point of view in which people use their own culture as a standard for judging the worth of another culture’s ways

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Cultural universals

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Found in every society

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Cultural Specifics

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Not found in every society

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Norms

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Written and unwritten social rules that specify how people should behave. They are often influenced by our shared values.

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What is Ascribed Status?

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A status that is assigned, not out of free will.

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What is Achieved Status?

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A status that is earned, a choice.

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Role

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The behaviors, obligations, expectations, and privileges associated with each of your statuses

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What is a Status?

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A socially defined position that a person occupies. It sets expectations for our behavior.

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Hunting and Gathering Societies

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Society with the fewest social divisions

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What are the Types of Society?

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What is Socialization?

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is the lifelong process by which people learn the characteristics of a group

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Who is Mead?

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Emphasized the significance of the role-taking process we go through as children.

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What is an Agent of Socialization?

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The people, institutions, and groups that influence our self-concept, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors

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What is the “Looking Glass Self”?

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Which says we develop our self-image from the way others treat us

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Who is Piaget?

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Children go through four stages as they develop their ability to reason.

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What is a Dyad?

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A group of two people.

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What is “McDonaldization”?

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Instrumental rational action of the fast-food industry is applied to other parts of American life.

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What is a Primary group?

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based on face-to-face interactions and strong emotional ties. Members feel a connection to one another. Person-oriented

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What is a Secondary group?

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interact on the basis of specific purposes. Goal-oriented

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What is deviance?

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What is Differential Association?

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based on the idea that criminal behavior is learned in the context of the groups we associate with

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What is strain theory?

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What is Labeling theory?

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What is Stigma?

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What is Stratification?

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What is Social Class?

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43
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What is social mobility

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44
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What were Marx’s ideas about social class?

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45
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What were Weber’s ideas about social class?

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What is the Conflict view of Stratification?

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What is the functionalist view of Stratification?

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What is Race?

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What is ethnicity?

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50
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What is Racial formation?

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51
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What is a minority group?

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52
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What is unconscious bias?

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What is redlining?

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What is sex?

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What is gender?

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56
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What is Intersexed?

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57
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What is gender stratification?

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58
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What is gender socialization?

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What is sexism?

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