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vocabulary

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sociology   the systematic study of human society  
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manifest functions   the recognized and intended consequences of a social structure or institution in society  
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latent functions   the unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social structure or institution in society  
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social dysfunction   any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society  
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variable   a concept whose value changes from case to case  
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correlation   a relationship in which two or more variables changes together  
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cause and effect   a relationship in which change in one variable (the independent variable cause change in another (the dependent variable)  
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culture   the way of thinking, the way of acting, and the material objects that together form a people's way of life  
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society   people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture  
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values   culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living  
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beliefs   specific statements that people hold to be true  
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norms   rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members  
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mores   norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance  
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folkways   norms for routine or casual interaction  
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technology   knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings  
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socialization   the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learns 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 cultural values and norms internalized by an individual  
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sensorimotor stage   Piaget's term 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 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 of self-image based on how we think other sees 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 reference in evaluating ourselves  
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peer group   the social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common  
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total institution   a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by administrative staff  
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resocialization   radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling their environment  
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social interaction   the process by which people act and react in relation to others  
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status   a social position that a person a holds  
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status set   all the statuses a person hold at a given time  
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ascribed status   a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntary later in life  
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achieved status   a social position a person takes on voluntary that reflects personal ability and effort  
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master status   a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life  
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role   behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status  
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role set   a number of roles attached to a single status  
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role conflict   conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses  
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role strain   tension among the roles connected to a single status  
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social construction of reality   the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction  
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Thomas theorem   W.I. Thomas' statement that situations define as real are real in their consequences  
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personal space   the surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy  
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social group   two or more people who identify and interact with one another  
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primary group   small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships  
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secondary group   a large and impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal or activity  
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dyad   a social group with two members  
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formal organization   a large secondary group organized to achieve its goals 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 interfering with an organization's goals  
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sex   the biological distinction between females and males  
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primary sex characteristics   the genitals, organs used for reproduction  
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secondary sex characteristics   bodily development, apart from the genitals, that distinguishes biologically mature females and males  
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sexual orientation   a person' romantic and emotional attraction to another person  
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pornography   sexually explicit material intended to cause sexual arousal  
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deviance   the recognized violation of cultural norms  
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crime   the violation of society's formally enacted criminal law  
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social control   attempt by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior  
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criminal justice system   a formal response by police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violations of the law  
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labeling theory   the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much form what people do as form how others respond to those actions  
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stigma   a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity  
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crimes against the person   (violent crimes) crimes that direct violence or the threat of violence against others  
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retribution   an act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crime  
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deterrance   the attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishment  
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rehabilitation   a program for reforming the offender to prent later offenses  
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societal protection   rendering an offender incapable of further offense temporarily through imprisonment or permanently by execution  
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criminal recidivism   later offenses by people previously convicted of crimes  
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