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19 Cards in this Set
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Bourgeoisie
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own the means of production in industrial society
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Conflict Perspective
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A view that society is composed of groups with clashing interest who engage in a struggle over control of valuable social resources.
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Functionalist Perspective
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A view that society is a relatively stable and orderly system composed of interdependent and interrelated parts.
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Industrialization
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The process by which societies are transformed from agricultural-based economic activity to manufacturing-based economic activities.
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Latent Function
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The largely unintended and unrecognized consequences of an activity or scoial institution.
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Macro-level
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A focus on the social institutions and large-scale social processes that shape society as a whole.
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Manifest Function
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The intended, expected, or overtly recognized consequences of an activity or social institution.
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Micro-level
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A focus on the dynamics and meanings of face-to-face interactions between people and small groups
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Proletariat
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People who own only their labor power, which they sell to the bourgeoisie to earn a living.
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Social Dysfunction
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The undesirable consequences of an institution or activity for the social system
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Social Facts
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Patterned ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling beyond the individual
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Social Structure
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The stable, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group or society.
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Society
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A large social grouping of people who occupy and interact together in the same geographic area; are organized by and subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations; and whose members share a sense of identity, loyalty, and purpose.
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Sociology
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The systematics study of human society and social interaction
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Sociological Perspective
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The ability to see the general in the particular
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Symbolic-interaction Perspective
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A view of society as the ongoing product of the everyday interactions and shared meanings of people and groups
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Theory
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A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how two or more social phenomena are related.
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Theoretical Perspective
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A basic overall image or paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society.
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Urbanization
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The process by which an increasing proportion of a society's population lives in cities instead of rural areas.
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