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Sociology Exam#1

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Functionalist   a society is viewed as a stable, orderly system  
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Conflict   groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources  
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Sybolic interactionists   focuses on the specific interaction among people  
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Cause and Effect   a relationship in which change in one variable causes a change in another  
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Independent Variable   the variable that causes the change  
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Dependent Variable   the variable that changes  
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Spurious Correlation   an apparent, although false, relationship between two (or more) variables caused by some other variable- a trivial or meaningless correlation  
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Culture   the values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that, together, form a people's way of life  
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Material Culture   the physical creations that members of a society make, use, and share  
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Symbols/Gestures   anything that meaningful represents someting else  
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Language   a set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another  
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis   language shapes the view of reality of its speakers  
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Values   ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirablre in a particular culture  
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Norms   established rules of behavior  
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Mores   norms that may NOT by violated without serious consequences  
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Folkways   norms that may be violated without serious consequences  
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Laws   written norms  
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Ethnocentrism   the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture  
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Cultural Relativism   the practice of evaluating a culture by it's own standards  
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Society   people who interact in a defined territory and share a common culture  
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Resocialization   the process by which people abandon their old sleves and develop new ones  
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