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28 Cards in this Set
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Disengagement Theory
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Society improves function by letting older people go from responsibility.
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Activity Theory
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Concept that high level of personal activity increases like satisfaction of older people.
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Modernization Theory
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Focuses on factors and conditions needed for country to become modern.
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Dependency Theory
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Explains global inequality as result of explotation of lower income nations by higher income nations.
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World Systems Theory
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Explains global inequality-where higher income nations benefit from lower income nations.
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Ethnomethodology
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Study of common sense knowledge people use to organize and understand their life.
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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Language shapes the specific way people understand, view and interpretate reality.
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Symbolic-Interactionist Perspective
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People create and shape their social world through use of symbols and agreed upon meanings.
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Theoretical Perspective
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Basic image used as way to understand society.
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Functionalist Perspective
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View that society is a relatively stable and orderly system
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Macro Level
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Examine social institutions and large scale social processes rather than small groups that shape society.
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Micro Level
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Face to face interactions between people and small groups.
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Conflict Perspective
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Views society as groups with clashing interest and engage in struggle over scarce resources.
exp-one group has control over jobs, buildings, money,ect |
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Gemeinschaft
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Preindustrial societies-relationships based upon friendship and family
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Gesellschaft
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Large Urban Society-impersonal based on individual self interest.
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Manifest Function
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Intended or expected consequence of an activity.
exp-Manifest Function of wedding is to legally join couple |
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Latent Function
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Consequences that are unintended or unrecognized.
exp-see family at a wedding |
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Quantitive Research
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Research emphasizes numerical data.
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Qualitive Research
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Research that shows way people interact rather than numerical data.
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Sociological Perspective
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Ability to see the general in perspective.
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Gentrification
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Where rich move in and take over city by renovating, ect and moving out the lower income class.
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Socialist Economies are also called:
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Command Economies
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What is the most common for of Social Control?
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Informal Social Control
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Bilateral Descent
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Tracing of Kinship through both men and women
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Endogamy
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Practice of marriage within a group
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Exogamy
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Practice of marriage outside of a group
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Homogamy
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Marrying someone with the same interest
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Ethnocentrism
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Practice of evaluating other cultures by the values and standards of our culture.
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