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Adaptation needs

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Goal attainment need

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Integration need

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Latency need

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Consensus theory

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In agreement - sees society as based on agreement about norms and values not conflict

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Modernist theory

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Believes society is relatively stable and prediicatable and certain institutions are best suited to this (e.g nuclear family)

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Organic analogy

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Concept that society acts as a body , all organs need to work to function.

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Particularistic standards

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Structural theory

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A theory which examines. How large social structures (e,g education system) shapes individuals.

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Universalistic standards

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Objective

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Remove personal bias in order to not affect the research.

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Manifest function

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Obvious, intended function

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Latent function

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Unintended function

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  1. Alienation
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Communism

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Class conciousness

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Class polarisation

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Counter hegemonic bloc

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Dual consciousness

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False consciousness

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Hegemony

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Historical materialism

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Structural determinism

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Surplus conduct

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3.Discourse
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Dual system feminism
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Emancipation
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Essentialism
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Familism
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Familism
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Gender
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Patriarchy
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The personal is political
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Political lesbianism
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Poststructuralism
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Separatism
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Sex
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Sexual politics
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Subordination
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4.Dramaturgical analysis
The idea that we are always playing a role and acting in accordance to the situation.
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Ethnomethodology
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Impression management
Controlling impression our performance gives
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Indexicality
Nothing has fixed meaning, everything depends on context- social order possibly under threat
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Interpretive phase
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Reflexivity
What makes meaning clear - most of the time is common-sense knowledge used to construct meaning.
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Social action theory
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Symbolic interactionism
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5.Death of the social
Concept that a person could live in modern day without having any social interactions.
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The enlightenment
17TH and 18TH century - question of tradition, freedom , equality, individualism e.t.c
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Globalisation
The process of increasing interdependence and integration between countries.
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Hyper reality
A world where the line are blurred between reality and media image
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Individualisation
Individuals are increasingly responsible for shaping their own identities and choices.
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Late modernity
Modernity concept developed to be continued
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Media saturated society
A society focused and absorbed by media content.
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Meta narrative
Overreaching story or framework that attempts to explain society as a whole.
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Reflexivity
Constantly monitor and reflect on our actions
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Relativism
Everything is relative to the person , there is no set truth.
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Risk society
The idea that every risk today is man-made
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Sign objects
Objects that give status through their brand e.t.c consume image they provide.
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Simulacrum
Representations of a person or a thong , which lack any basis in reality.
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Time- space consumption
The concept that everything is at our fingertips due to technological advances.
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Containerism
Trade brought about by big containers
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6. Closed system
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Deduction
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Detachment
Staying separate from a study to remove personal bias in order
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Falsification
Able to prove wrong
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Fallacy of induction
Induction being false reasoning
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Grounded theory
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Induction
Gathering evidence and then forming a theory to explain the world based on this evidence.
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Objectivity
Based on facts and truth with no personal biased - independent
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Open system
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Paradigm
A view or theory everyone agrees on e.g Newtons Laws
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Social facts
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Subjectivity
Personal bias involved - dependent
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Verificationism
The evidence that supports a theory
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Veste hen
True , deep understanding
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Committed sociology
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Modern positisvists
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Values
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Value commitment
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Value freedom

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