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Sociology

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show The relative lack of access to the latest technologies among low-income groups, racial and ethnic minorities, rural residents, and the citizens of developing countries.    
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show A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests.    
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Gatekeeping   show  
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Mass media   Print and electronic means of communication that carry messages to widespread audiences.   show
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Narcotizing dysfunction   show  
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Opinion leader   show  
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show An unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual differences within the group.    
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Social Institutions   show  
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show The ways in which people respond to one another    
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Social Network   show  
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conflict theory   show  
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Alienation   show  
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Coalition   A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.   show
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Ideal type   show  
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Horticultural society   A preindustrial society in which people plant seeds and crops rather than merely subsist on available foods.   show
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McDonaldization   The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world.   show
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Mechanical solidarity   A collective consciousness that emphasizes group solidarity, characteristic of societies with minimal division of labor.   show
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Net neutrality   The principle that the government should remain nonselective of neutral toward online content.   show
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Organic solidarity   A collective consciousness that rests on mutual interdependence, characteristic of societies with a complex division of labor.   show
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