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1
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placebo effect

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believing the treatment is being administered can lead to measurable results

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double blind

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opposite of placebo effect, neither the person nor the researcher knows who is in the control group or not

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meta analysis

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big picture analysis of many studies to look for trends in the data

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attrition

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participants dropping out of the study, threat to internal validity, confounding variable

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type 1 error

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false positive

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type 2 error

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false negative

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large sample size

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above 30 people

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confounding variable

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extraneous variable not accounted for EX: ice cream increases sunburn increases, does ice cream increase sunburns?

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Hawthorne effect

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alteration of behavior because of awareness of being observed

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external validity

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difficult to apply conclusion to real world

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internal validity

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experiment is not well done leaving doubts about the conclusion because of inherent flow in the design, is high if confounding variables are limited

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functionalism

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many different interrelated and interdependent parts, Herbet Spencer said organs work for the human body just like institutions of a society and can evolve with pressures of organisms, dynamic equilibrium

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Emilee Durkheim

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sociology, societys capactiy to maintain social order and stability is paramount to its functional success

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social facts

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laws, rules, morals that make up a society, serve some function

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manifest functions

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official consequence of a structure, usually good EX: enforcing laws by police

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latent functions

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not officially sought consequence, good, bad, or neutral EX: raising government money by issuing traffic tickets

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conflict theory

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large scale social structures and their effects in individuals, Karl Marx

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18
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hegemony

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coerced acceptance of values, expectations determined by capitalist class
capitalism->socialism-> communism

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class consciousness

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exploit workers awareness of the reasons for their oppression

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Max Weber

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Protestant/Puritan work ethic (religious, work hard for god)

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rationalization of society

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maximum result, minimum effort

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symbolic interactionism

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George Herbert Meed, 1. ascribe meanings then act 2. language 3. modify meanings

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social constructionism

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people shape reality through interactions

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social exchange theory

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rational actor=game=rational choice theory

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utilitarianism

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humans act rationally, they try to benefit themselves

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teacher expectancy theory

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if student accepts teachers expectations they will be good

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educational stratification

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perpetuates social inequalities

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fundamentalists

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extremely religious people

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republican government

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people have supreme power

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federalist government

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central government and constituents

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parliamentary government

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all interconnected

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presidential government

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head of state

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anarchy

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lawless

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mechanical solidarity

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society integrates because people have common beliefs

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organic solidarity

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integrate through division of labor, different personal experiences

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medical model of disease

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physical and medical factors cause disease, understanding illness

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social model of disease

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disease effected by class, employment, neighborhood

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food desert

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place where no grocery store exists so easier to eat desert

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sick role

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person when sick does not contribute to society, Talcott Parsons

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social institution

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-family
-education
-religion
-health
-government/economy

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I and Me

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individual vs social self, character different from social environment

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relative poverty

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inability to meet average standard of living, EX: unemployment

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absolute poverty

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no basic necessities, EX: food, water, healthcare

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cyclical poverty

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transient period, overall state of the economy

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experimental design

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to test casualty, cause and effect, not correlational, phenomenological, nor case study design

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social constructionism

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socialization and constructionism of social realities

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symbolic cultures

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symbols recognized by same culture

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material culture

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physical object

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nonmaterial culture

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specific to social thoughts EX: values

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pop culture

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regular

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high culture

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elite EX: ballet, operas

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cultural universals

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necessities, common to all

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cultural diffusion

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transfer 1 culture to social groups

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cultural competence

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interactions between people with different cultures

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cultural transmission

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information passed down to successive generations

56
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cultural lag

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material changing, nonmaterial is not changing

57
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replacement fertility rate

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rate at which the population remains balanced

58
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subreplacement

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birth rate less than death rate

59
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population lag effect

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changes in fertility rate are not reflected in birth rate

60
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population momentum

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children produced during periods of higher fertility rates reproduce

61
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morbidity

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nature and extent of disease in a population

62
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case fatality rate

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death as a result of a disease

63
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white flight

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white people to black people areas

64
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urban sprawls

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urban to rural areas negative effect is urban blight (urban decline)

65
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gentrification

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fixes urban life, urban renewal

66
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demographic transition

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transition from overall death and birth rate from high to low because of industrialization

67
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Thomas Robert Malthus

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population result of available resources

68
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Malthusianism

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rate of population increases exceeds rate of resources

69
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positive check

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raise death rate (disease, etc.)

70
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preventative check

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lower birth rate (birth control)

71
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Malthusian Catastrophe

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sustenance not enough for the population, EX: population reduction through famine so people stop having kids in fear of shortage

72
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Neomalthusian

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movement based on these principles advocated for population control

73
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New Great Migration

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reverse migration, black migration to the now urban south as racial relations improved

74
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