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What is the study of people in small groups?

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Micro Sociology

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What is the study of people and how they relate to society?

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Sociology

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Who is the father of Sociology?

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Augiste Comte

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What is the study of large groups and entire societies?

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Macro Sociology

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What is a group of people that form a group?

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Aggregate

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Status, class, party

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Max Weber’s Social Stratification (3)

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A social group with intense intimacy

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Primary Group

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Group that shares the same goals but looser ties

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Secondary Group

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Emotional intensity of the attachments in a group

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Social Solidarity

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Unfriendly interaction between groups

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Social Conflict

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A variable the researchers have direct control over

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Independent Variable

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The idea that society is a system

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Functional Perspective

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Two elements in a society that are in conflict

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Conflict Perspective

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One variable effects another variable

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Causation

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Where people of different ages are studied at one particular time

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Cross Sectional Studies

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Where people are followed over a long period of time

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Longitudinal Studies

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The number or amount of something

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Quantitative

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Similar in structure of organization

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Qualitative

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A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set

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Census

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Set of cases or people chosen from a large group and focused on

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Sample

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When a person along with several others, is studied in depth

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Case Study

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Survey a sample of people to gather information

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Interviews

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People who share the same geographic area

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Populations

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Something mailed out using sampling methods

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Survey

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Average

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Mean

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The number that is repeated the most in a string of numbers

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Mode

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The number in the middle of a data set

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Median

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Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area

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SMSA

29
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80% of wealth is controlled by 20% of the people

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80/20 Rule

30
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Collect data, create hypothesis, test theory, revise

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Four Steps of Scientific Method

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Group of people in an area with social ties

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Society

32
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Unequal distribution of rewards - social ladder

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Stratification

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People who share the same position

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Classes

34
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An upward change in the social system

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Upward Mobility

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A downward change in the social system

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Downward Mobility

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The rank of a person in the society

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Status

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Position given but those who do not achieve things on their own

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Ascribed Status

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Position gained by achievement

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Achieved Status

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A word for a social link

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Tie

40
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Network full of holes where ties are weak

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Cosmopolitan Network

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Ideals about what is desirable behavior

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Values

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Set of manners and actions part of everyday society

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Folkways

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Customs that are important to the culture

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Mores

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A rule created by the government

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Law

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Sum of all human creations

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Culture

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Expectations of a person’s behavior based on their role

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Role

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Negative attitudes and thoughts about a particular group

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Prejudice

48
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Where a person thinks their race is the best

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Ethnocentrism

49
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Meaning of a trait depends on cultural background

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Cultural Relativism

50
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How a person learns how to live in their environment

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Socialization

51
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Showing the ways boys and girls are socialized

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Gender Socialization

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Prejudice of Jews

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Anti-Semitism

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Instability in culture because of erosion of morals

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Anomie

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When material is taken in and made to fit with existing information

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Assimilation

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The change made to one’s mind from the process of assimilation

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Accommodation

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Creation of standard

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Normative Order

57
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Deviance happens when people are blocked from achieving goals in legitimate ways

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Merton’s Anomie Theory

58
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When a person’s self-esteem is based how others see them

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Looking Glass Self

59
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Communist Manifesto

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Karl Marx wrote

60
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Amount of all children that all women could have in their childbearing years

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Total Fertility Rate

61
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Death of babies that are one year or younger

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Infant Mortality Rates

62
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How populations change

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Demographic Transition Theory

63
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When small cities group together

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Urban Sprawl

64
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Egoistic, Altruistic, Anomic, Fatalistic

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Durkheim’s Forms of Suicide (4)

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