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13 Cards in this Set
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The loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
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Anomie
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A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of confilct or tension between competing groups.
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Conflict perspective
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A view of social interaction that examines people as if they were theatrical performers.
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Dramaturgical approach
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An element or process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to decrease in stability.
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Dysfunction
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A socialogical approach that views inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
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Feminist perspective
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A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
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Funcionalist perspective
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A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which actual cases can be evaluated.
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Ideal type
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An approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
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Interactionist perspective.
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Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
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Latent functions
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Sociological investigation that concentrates on large scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
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Macrosociology
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Sociological investigation that concentrates on large scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
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Macrosociology
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Open, stated , and conscious functions.
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Manifest functions
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Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses lab experimamental studies.
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Microsociology
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