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Social Structure

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system of people within a society organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships

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Functionalism or Functional Analysis

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Study of the structure and function of each part of society

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Function

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beneficial consequence of people’s actions

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Dysfunctions

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harmful consequences that undermine a social system’s equilibrium

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Manifest Function

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action that is intended to help some part of the system

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Latent Functions

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unintended positive consequences on other parts of society that come from a manifest function

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Conflict Theory

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focuses on how power differentials are created and how these differentials contribute to the maintenance of social order

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Symbolic Interactionism

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study of the ways individuals interact through a shared understanding of words, gestures, and other symbols

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Social Constructionism

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Focuses on how individuals put together their social reality

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Rational Choice Theory

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focuses on decision-making in an individual and attempts to reduce this process to a careful consideration of benefits and harms to the individual

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Exchange Theory

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extension of above theory. This theory focuses only on interactions within groups

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Feminist Theory

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Attempts to explain social inequalities that exist on the basis of gender

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Gender Roles

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behaviors expected of a given gender

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Glass Ceiling

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women have more difficulty attaining top-level administrative positions within a company

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Social Institutions

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Well established social structures that dictate certain patterns of behavior or relationships and are accepted as a fundamental part of culture

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Patterns of kinship

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tend to change over time and area

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Teacher expectancy

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idea that teachers tend to get what they expect from students

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Religiosity

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how religious one considers themselves to be

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Secularization

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shift away from religion as society moves towards rationality and scientific thinking

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Fundamentalism

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maintenance of strict adherence to religious code

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Beneficence

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physician has a responsibility to act in the patient’s best interests

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Nonmaleficence

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do no harm; physician has a responsibility to avoid treatment or interventions in which the potential for harm outweighs the potential for benefit

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Respect for Patient Autonomy

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physician has responsibility to respect patients’ decisions and choices about their own healthcare

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Justice

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physician has a responsibility to treat similar patients with similar care, and to distribute healthcare resources fairly

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Culture

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encompassing the entire lifestyle for a given group. Culture is what makes human societies unique from one another

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Ethnography

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study of cultures

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Artifacts

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material items that are made, possessed and valued

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Material culture

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  • physical items that are associated with a given group

- tangible embodiment of the underlying ideas of symbolic culture

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Symbolic culture

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  • Informs cultural values and belief
  • Informs cultural norms and communication styles
  • usually slower to change than material culture
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Culture Lag

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created due to this difference in pace

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Values

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what a person deems important in life

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Belief

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something that an individual accepts to be truth

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Cultural Barriers

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When cultural differences impede interaction with others

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Norms

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societal rules that define boundaries of acceptable behavior

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Ritual

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formalized ceremony that involves specific material objects, symbolism, and additional mandates on acceptable behaviors

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Demographics

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  • statistics of populations and are the mathematical applications of sociology
  • common demographic categories: age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, immigration status
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Race

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social construct based on phenotypic differences between groups of people

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Racialization

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definition or establishment of a group as a particular race

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Racial formation theory

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suggests that racial identity is fluid and dependent on concurrent political, economic, and social factors

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Ethnicity

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social construct that sorts people by cultural factors

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Symbolic Ethnicity

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specific connection to one’s ethnicity in which ethnic symbols and identity remain important, even when ethnic identity does not play a significant role in everyday life

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Kinsey Scale

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Describes sexuality on a scale of 0 (heterosexuality) to 6 (homosexuality)

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Intersectionality

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the interplay between multiple demographic factors, especially when it leads to discrimination or oppression

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Population Pyramids

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provide a histogram of the population size of various age cohorts

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Crude rate

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total rate for a population

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Migration

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Immigration is the influx of population into a new geographic space

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Emigration

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movement away from a geographic space

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Demographic Shifts and Social Change

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Changes in the makeup of a population over time

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Demographic Transition

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specific example of demographic shift which refers to changes in birth and death rates in a country as it develops from a preindustrial to industrial economic system

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Demographic Transition: Stage 1

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preindustrial society; birth and death rates are both high

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Demographic Transition: Stage 2

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improvements in healthcare, nutrition, sanitation, and wages causes death rates to drop

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Demographic Transition: Stage 3

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Improvements in contraception, women’s rights, and shift from agriculture to an industrial economy causes birth rates (births per 1000 individuals per year) to drop

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Demographic Transition: Stage 4

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Industrialized Society; birth and death rates are both low

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Malthusian Theory

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focuses on how exponential growth of a population can outpace growth of the food supply and thus lead to social degradation and disorder

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relative deprivation

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decrease in resources, representation, or agency relative to the past or to the rest of society

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Proactive Social Movements

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promote social change

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Reactive Social Movements

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resist social change

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Globalization

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Process of integrating the global economy with free trade and the tapping of foreign markets.

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Urbanization

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Dense areas of population that create a pull for migration

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Ghettos

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areas where specific racial, ethnic or religious minorities are concentrated

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Slums

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more extreme case that is an extremely densely populated area with low-quality housing and poor sanitation

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