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19 Cards in this Set
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bourgeoisie
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People who 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 struggle over control of valuable resources,
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Functionalists perspective
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A 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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The process by which societies are transformed from agricultural-based economic activity to manufacturing-based economic activity.
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latent function
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The largely unintended and unrecognized consequences of an activity or social institution.
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macro-level
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A focus on the social institutions and large-scale social processes that shape society as a whole.
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manifest function
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The intended, expected, or overtly recognized consequences of an activity or social institution.
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micro-level
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A focus on the 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 their 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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The stable, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group or society.
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society
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A large social grouping of people who occupy and interact together in the same geographic area; are organized by and are subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations; and whose members share a sense of identity, loyalty, and purpose.
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sociology
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The systematic study of human society and social interaction.
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sociological perspective
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The ability to see the general in the particular.
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symbolic-interaction perspective
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A 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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A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how two or more social phenomena are related.
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theoretical perspective
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A basic overall image or paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society.
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urbanization
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The process by which an increasing proportion of a society's population lives in cities instead of rural areas.
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