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Intro to Sociology

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Socialization   the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture  
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personality   a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling  
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id   Freud's term for the human being's basic drives  
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ego   Freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure seeking drives with the demands of society  
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superego   Freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual  
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sensorimotor stage   Piaget's temr for the level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses  
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preoperational stage   Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first use language and other symbols  
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concrete operational stage   Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings  
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formal operational stage   Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically  
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self   George Herbert Mead's term for the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image  
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looking-glass self   Charles Horton Cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us  
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significant others   people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization  
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generalized other   Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves  
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peer group   a social group whose memebers have interests, social position, and age in common  
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anticipatory socialization   learning that helps a person achieve a desired position  
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mass media   the means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience.  
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social group   two or more people who identify with and interact with one another  
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primary group   a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships  
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secondary group   a large and impersonal social group whose memebers pursue a specific goal or activity  
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insrumental leadership   group leadership that focuses on the completion of tasks  
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expressive leadership   group leadership that focuses on the groups well-being  
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groupthink   the tendency of group members to to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue  
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reference group   a social group that serves as a point of refernece in making evaluations and decisions  
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in-group   a social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty  
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out-group   a social group toward which a member feels a sense of competition or opposition  
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dyad   a social group with two members  
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triad   a social group with three members  
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network   a web of weak social ties  
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formal organization   a large secondary group organized to achieve its goals efficiently  
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tradition   values and beliefs passed from generation to generation  
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rationality   a way of thinking that emphasizes deliberate, matter-of-fact calculation of the most efficient way to accomplish a particular task  
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rationalization of society   Weber's term for the historical change from tradition to rationality as the main type of human thought  
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bureaucracy   an organizational model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently  
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organizational environment   factors outside an organization that affect its operation  
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bureaucratic ritualism   a focus on rules and regulations to the point of undermining an organization's goals  
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bureaucratic inertia   the tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate themselves  
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oligarchy   the rule of the many by the few  
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scientific management   Frederick Taylor's term for the application of scientific principles to the operation of a business or other large organization  
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