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Part 1

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Stratification   System by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarachy  
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Mass Media   Print and Electronic ways of communication through newspapers, magazines, tv  
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Gate-Keeping   A handful of people who decide what should be released to the media  
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Feminization of Poverty   The idea that women represent the increasing porportion of the poor  
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Income Vs Wealth   Income is wages and salaries, Wealth is the assets, and land that was past on from generation to generation  
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Intra-Generational   The change in social position within a person's life  
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Inter-Generational   The change within a social position relative to their parents  
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Relative Poverty   Standard of Deprivation by which people at the bottom compared to the society as a whole  
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Absolute Poverty   The minimum standard below to which families should not be expected to exist  
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Differential Association   Tendency toward conformity or deviance depends upon the amount of contact with others who encourage or reject  
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Discredited   When a person displays a characteristics of a label  
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Discreditable   When a person has the characteristics of the label but is not displayed  
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Stigma   A poweragul negative label that changes a person's self-concept and self-image  
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Labeling Theory   The assertion that deviance and conformity result not so much of what people do but what society thinks  
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Reference Group   A social group that serves as a point of reference for making evaluations or decisions  
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Mechanical Solidarity   Social bonds based on common sentiments and shared moral values  
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Organic Solidarity   Social bonds based on specialization and interdependece  
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Retrospective Labeling   A reinterpretaion of a person's past in light of some present deviance  
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Projective Labeling   People us a deviant identity to predict future actions  
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Dominant Ideology   A set of cultural beliefs and practives that help to maintain a powerful socail, economica and political interests  
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Group Think   The tendency of group members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue  
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Social Loafing   The production power of a group is less than the sum total production power of the individuals in the group  
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Social Capital   Features of social organization such as networks, norms and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit  
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Crime   The violation of a society's formally enacted crimal law  
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Victimless Crime   A term used by a sociologist to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired but illegal, goods and services  
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Criminal Recidivism   The time it takes for them to return to jail  
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Davis-Moore Thesis   Divides, Defines Social Groups and analyzes, universal  
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Gender   The personal traits and social positions that members of a soiety attach to being feminine or masculine  
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Gender Stratification   The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privlige between men and women  
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Minority   Any category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a socicet sets apart and subordiates  
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Social Control   Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior Informal: Spanking, Formal: Jail  
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Criminal Justice System   Formal response by the police, courts and prison officals to alleged violations of law  
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Unemployement   A person who is able and willing to work yet unable to find a job  
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Unemployment Rate   The # of Unemployed/Eligible workers  
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Sex   Biological distinction between male and female  
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Feminism   The advocact of social equality for men an women  
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Sexism   The belief that one sex innately inferior to the other  
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Transsexual   A person who dresses and behaves like the other gender  
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Transgender   A person who undertakes a biologic transition to become the other sex  
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