Sociology Final

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primary groups

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Poeple we are intimately associated with, family, friends. More face to face interaction, deeper feelings of belonging. Have profound effects on individuals and emotional satisfaction.

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secondary groups

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Larger, less intimate: co-workers, college classmates. Usually organized around specific activity. Often temporary.

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social network

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Direct and Indirect ties. Connection of 2nd network must pass through the people in your 1st network.

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anomie

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normlessness, term used to describe the alienation and loss of pupose that result from weaker social bonds

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reference group

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Provides standards by which a person evaluates his own personal attributes. Try to live up to standards, aspire to belong.

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social loafing

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As more individuals are added to a task, each one contributes a little less.

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social identity

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Feeling like a representative of a group, real desire to belong, increases motivation & places needs of group above personal

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entomophagy

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the eating of insects

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functionalism

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Each element of social structure helps maintain the stability of society.

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conflict theory

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Believe that rules are applied unequally: those at the top are subject to different rules than less powerful groups.

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structural strain theory

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Strain between socially approved goals & an individuals ability to meet those goals through socially approved means will lead to deviance as individuals reject either the goals, the means, or both. Position in the social structure will affect his experience of deviance.

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innovators

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Seek financial success via unconventional means, such as drug dealing.

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ritualists

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Go through the conventional motions while abandoning all hope of success.

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retreatists

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Like dropouts or hermits, renounce the culture's goals and means, live outside conventional norms.

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rebels

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Reject both cultural definitions of success & normative means of achieving it, advocate radical alternatives.

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in-group orientation

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Reject the standards that mark them as deviant, propose new standards in which their spectial identities are well within the norm.

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outsiders

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People living in one way or another outside of mainstream society, segregated from the norm.

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deviance avowal

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Individual self-identifies as deviant & initiates his or her own labeling process.

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desistance

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The tendency of individuals to age out of crime over the life course.

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social stratification

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The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy.

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social inequality

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The unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of a society.

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slavery

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Most extreme form of social stratification, based on the legal ownership of people.