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18 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 interests who engage in a sruggle over vontrol of valuable social resources
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functionalist perspective
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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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process by which societies are transformed from agriculture to manufacturing activity
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latent function
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the largely unintended and unrecoginzed consequences of an activity of social institution
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macro-level
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a focu on the social institutions and large-scale social processes that shape society as a whole
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namifest function
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intended,expected,or overtly recognized consequences of an activity of social institution
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micro-level
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focus on 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 thier 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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stable,organized patterns of social relationships and institutions that exist within a particular group
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society
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large social grouping who occupy and ineract in the same area, are organized by common government and dominant cultural expectations, members share identity,loyalty and purpose
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sociological perspective
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ability to see the general in the particular
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symbolic-interaction perspective
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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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set of statements that attempts to explain,describe and predict how two or more social phenomena are related
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theoretical perspective
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basic overall image or paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society
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urbanization
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process by which an increasing proportion of population lives in cities instead of rural areas
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