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50 Cards in this Set
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A way people respond to one another?
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Social interaction`
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Person who influences the opinion and decisions of others thru personal contact?
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Opinion leader
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The media provides massive amounts of coverage that audiences becomes numb?
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Narcotizing Dysfunction
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Print & electronic means of communication to widespread audiences
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Mass media
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Relative small # of people controlling what reaches the audience
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Gatekeeping
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System where peasants worked the lands of nobles in exchg for military protection.
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Estate system
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karl marx describes an attitude used by mbrs of a class that is not accurate to their obj postion
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False consciousness
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Movement of an individual from social position to another of the same rank.
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Horizontal mobility
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Changes in social position of children relative their to parents
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Intergenerational mobility
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Opportunties people have to provide themselves with good living conditons
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Life Chances
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Position of an individual is influenced by his achieved status
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Open System
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Respect and admiration that a occupation holds in society
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Prestige
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Floating standard of deprivation by people on the bottom
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Relative poverty
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Society having different amt of wealth, prestige or power
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social inequality
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People who the same prestige or lifestyle
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Status group
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Movement of individuals or groups from 1 position to another
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social mobility
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Label used to devalue members
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Stigma
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Structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal rewards
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Stratification
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Poor people who lack training and skills
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Underclass
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An inclusive term encompassing ones assets
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Wealth
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Generalizing about mbrs of a group without recognizes ones individuality
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Stereotype
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Generalizing about mbrs of a group without recognizes ones individuality
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Stereotype
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Loss of direction felt in a society
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Anomie
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School who argues that criminal behavior is learened
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Cultural transmission
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Going along with peers
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CONFORMITY
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Certain people are deviants and others are not
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Labeling theory
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Behavior that violates the standards of conduct
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Deviance
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Group that regulates among criminal enterprise
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Organize crime
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Creation of deviant idenitiy
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Social constuction perspective
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A penalty or reward for conduct
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Sanction
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Techniqe or strategy for preventing deviant behavior
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Social control
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Social ranking based on on economic position
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class system
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Hereditary ranking, usually religious ranking
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Caste
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System there is little or no individual social mobility
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Closed system
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Most technologically advanced form of preindustrial
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Agrarian Society
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Productions are largely held in private hands for accummulation of profits
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Capitalism
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Social position you obtain thru your own efforts
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Achieved status
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Social position assigned to you w/o the need of your talents
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Ascribed status
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Estrangement or dissociation from surrounding society
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Alienation
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Organization that rules and hierachial ranking to achieve effiency
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Bureauracy
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Organization that views workers motivation by economic rewards
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Classical Theory
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Close knit community
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Gemeinschaft
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flow of content across muliple media
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cultural convergence
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A large and impersonal community
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Gesellschaft
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Lack of access to the latest technology
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Digital Divide
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Cutural beliefs that maintain powerful social interest
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Dominant ideology
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Tax break, bailouts that are given to corporations
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Corporate welfare
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Incompatiable expectatons arise from 2 or more positons held by same person
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Role conflict
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Collective conciousness that rests on mutual interdependence
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Organic solidarity
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Approach of formal organization that emphasizes on the role of people
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Human relations approach
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