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19 Cards in this Set
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Violence
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the use of phsyical force to cause pain, injury or death to another or damage to property
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sociology
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the academic and scholarly discipline that engages in the systematic study of human socieaty and social interactions
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society
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a large number of individuals who share the same geographical territory and are subject to the same political autority and cominant cultural expectations
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culture
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the knowledge, language, calues, customs and material objects that are passed from person to person and from on gnereation to the next in a human group or society
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social problem
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a social condition or a pattern of behavior that harms some individuals or all people in a society and that a sufficient number of people believe warrants public concern and collective action to bring about change
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sociological imagination
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the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society
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microlevel analysis
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focuses on small group realtions and social interaction among people
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macrolevel analysis
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focuses on social processes occuring at the societal level
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subjective awareness
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a feeling of uneasieness or skepticism about something
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functionalist persective
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society is a stable, orderly system composed of a number of interrelated parts, each of which performs a function that contributes to the overall stability of the society
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Manifest functions
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are intended and recognized consequences of an activity or social process
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latent functions
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are the unintended consequences of an activity or social process that are hidden and remain unacknowledged by participants
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subculture of violence hypothesis
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states that violence is part of the normative expectations governing everyday behavior among young males in the lower classes
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lifestyle routine approach
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says that peoples everyday actions and needs for food, shelter, companionship, etc. are key to understanding violent personal crimes
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conflict perspective
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based on the assumption that groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources
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symbolic interactionist perspective
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views society as the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups
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self-fulfilling prophecy
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the process by which an unsubstantiated belief or prediction results in behavior that makes the original false conception become true
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social stratification
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the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups on the basis of their control over basic resources
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human capital
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things that someone brings to the workplace to offer such as education, skill, job training, or experience
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