Sociology Final

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Science

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The intellectual and practical activity encomapassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment

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Empirical facts

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Facts that are acquired by means of observation or experimentation.

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Statistical data

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collection, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data

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Microsociology

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Everyday human interaction on the small scale. Face to Face.

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Macrosociology

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Large populations, Social structure or even theoretical abstraction.

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Culture

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The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social groups.

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Values

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What is considered good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or ndesirable

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Beliefes

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Acceptance of an idea of situation.

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Folkways

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Everyday manners and etiqutte

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Mores

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Strongly held norms that reflect the values and morals of a culture

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Norms

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Accepted ways of behaving and acting towards others

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Laws

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Rules that are enforced by the governing body

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Society

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The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

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Race

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A group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc...

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Ethnicity

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The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition

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Dominant group

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Not necessarily the majority, but the group with power, priviliges and social status.

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Predjudice

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Usually negative preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

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Racism

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The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

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Sex

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Either of the two main categories (male or female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions. BIOLOGICAL

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Gender

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Socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate, MENTAL

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Social justice

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The belief that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.

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Social Class

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A division of society based on social and economic status.

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Social instututions

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Estabilished sets of norms and subsystems that support each society's survival. (Economic, Governmental, Family, Educational, and Religious)

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Socialization

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The process by which a human being beginning at infancy acquires the habits, beliefes, and accumulated knowledge of society.

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Social Norms

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The rules that group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefes, attitudes and behaviors.

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Values

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Group conceptions of the relative desirability of things.

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Beliefs

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Assumptions and convictions that are held to be true by an individual or group, regarding concepts, events, people, and things.

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Attitudes

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mental position with regard to a fact or state

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Stereotyping

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The act of putting a person or group of persons into a widely help but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

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Cultural Capital

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The ideas and knowledge that people draw upon as they participate in social life

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Homogamy

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Marriage between individuals who are in some culturally important way similar to eachother

a. status

b. class

c. gender

d. ethnicity

e. religion

f. Age

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Domestic violence

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Violent or aggressive behavior within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner

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Cycle of violence

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A pattern of violence that shows up in many abusive relationships.

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Immigration

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The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

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Social stratification

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Asystem by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy

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Class system

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A system that divides groups of people with similar leveles of wealth, influence, and status into separate categories.

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Digital Divide

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the gulf between those who have ready access to the computers and internet and those who do not.

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Information Revolution

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A proliferation of the availabilty of information and the accompanying changes in its storage and dissemination owing to the use of computers

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Social Construction of Reality

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Also known as Social Constructionism.

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Social mobility

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The movement of individual, families, housholds, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.

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Socioeconomic Status

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A measure of an individual's or family's economic and social position based on education, income, and occupation.

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Meritocracy

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A system in which such persons are rewarded and advanced.

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Patriarchy

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A society in which men hold the power and women are largly excluded from it.

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Suffrage Movement

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A movement to win the right to vote in elections

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Second Shift

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Unpaid housework that typically women do after they come home from their paid employment

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Sexual Orientation

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A person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.

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Transgendered

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denoting or relating to a person whose self identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender.

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Transsexuals

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A person who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite sex.

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Capitalism

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An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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Socialism

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The means of production, distribution, and exchange, should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

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Social Change

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Alteration in the social order of society.

1. Nature, Social institutions, Social Behaviors, and Social Relations are all subject to change

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Activism

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The policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.

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White Privilege

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Societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances

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Intersectionality

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The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group. Regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

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Functionalism

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The theory that all aspects of a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of that society.

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Social Conflict

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The struggle for agency or power in society

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Symbolic Interactionism

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The view of social behavior that emphasized linguistic or gestural communication and its subjective understanding, especially the role of language in the fomation of the child as a social being.