Term | Definition The ways in which people respond to one another. | |
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Term | Definition The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships. | |
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Term | Definition A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society. | |
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Term | Definition A social position that is "assigned" to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics. | |
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Term | Definition A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts. | |
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Term | Definition A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society. | |
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Term | Definition a "Persona" that one adapts while they go through thier social interactions | |
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Term | Definition The situation that occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person. | |
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Term | Definition The situation that occurs when the same social position imposes conflicting demands and expectations. | |
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Term | Definition Any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis. | |
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Term | Definition A small group characterized by intimate, face-to-face association and cooperation. | |
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Term | Definition A formal, impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding. | |
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Term | Definition Any group or category to which people feel they belong. | |
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Term | Definition Any Group where one feels they do not belong | |
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Term | Definition A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others, and through them, indirectly to still more people. | |
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Term | Definition Techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior in any society. | |
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Term | Definition A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm. | |
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Term | Definition Going along with peers—individuals of our own status, who have no special right to direct our behavior. | |
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Term | Definition Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure. | |
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Term | Definition Control that people use casually to enforce norms. | |
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Term | Definition Control carried out by authorized agents, such as police officers, physicians, school administrators, employers, military officers, and managers of movie theaters. | |
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Term | Definition Governmental social control. | |
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Term | Definition adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment, or both. | |
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Term | Definition A label society uses to devalue members of a certain social group. | |
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Term | Definition Émile Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective. | |
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Term Anomie Theory of Deviance | | Definition A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment, or both. | |
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Term | Definition A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions. | |
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Term | Definition A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts. | |
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Term | Definition A theory that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants. | |
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Term Societal-Reaction Approach | | Definition Alternate name for labeling Theory | |
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Term | Definition A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner. | |
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Term | Definition Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised. | |
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