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19 Cards in this Set
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Achieved Status
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Positions that are earned, accomplished, or involve at least some effort or activity.
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Ascribed Status
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Position someone either inherits at birth or receives later on in life.
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Agents of Socialization
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People or groups that affect our self-concept, attitudes, behaviors, or other orientations towards life.
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Anomie
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Durkheim's term for a condition of society in which people become detached from the norms that usually guide their behavior.
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Anticipatory Socialization
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Th process of learning in advance the role or status one anticipates having.
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Authority
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Power that people consider legitimate, as rightly exercised over them.
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Bourgeoisie
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Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production.
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Capitalism
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an economic system characterized by the private ownership of the means of production, the pursuit of profit.
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Caste System
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An intensive analysis of a single event, situation, or individual.
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Class System
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A form of social stratification based primarily on the possession of money or material possessions.
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Conflict Theory
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Society is viewed as a group of composed group of people competing for scarce individuals.
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Credential Society
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the use of diploma's and degrees to determine who is eligible for jobs.
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Cultural Lag
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Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations.
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Cultural Relativism
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Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms.
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Culture
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The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next.
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Democratic Socialism
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a hybrid economic system in which the individual ownership of businesses is mixed with the state ownership of industries thought essential to the public welfare.
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Discrimination
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An act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group.
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Dominant Group
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The group with the most power, highest social status, and greatest privileges.
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Endogamy
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The practice of marrying within one's own group.
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