Patterned interaction of people in social relationships

Ability to control the behavior of others

Set of assumptions about an area of study accepted as true

Approach that emphasizes the contributions made in each part of society

Ability to see the link between society and self

Approach that focuses on the interactions among people based on mutually understood symbols

View that looks at the behavior of groups, not individuals

Scientific Study of social structure; patterned social behavior

Approach that depicts human interaction as theatrical performances

Questions a person must answer by choosing from a limited, predetermined set of responses

Research that takes place in a natural setting

Case study in which the researcher becomes a member of the group being studied

Group of people with certain specific characteristics

Using precollected information for data collection and research purposes

Group of people who represent a larger population

Questions a person is to answer in his/her own words

Written set of questions to be answered by a research participant

Intensive study of a single group, incident, or community

Survey method in which a trained researcher asks questions and records answers

Knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects shared by the members of a society

Rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms

Ideas about the nature of reality

Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior

Norms that have moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of the society

Judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards

Norms that lack moral significance

Broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in a society

To believe unfairly that all people/things with a particular characteristic are the same

Group of people who inhabit a specific territory and share a common culture

Informal and unofficial aspects of culture that children are taught in school

The process of learning to participate in a group

Process of adopting new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors

Set of individuals of roughly the same age and interests

Image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people

Group whose norms and values are used to guide behavior; group with whom you identify

Means of communication designed to reach the general population

Those people whose reactions are most important to your self-concept

Rituals marking the passage from one status to another

Process of giving up old norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors

Position a person occupies within a social structure

Behavior that individuals are expected to perform toward others

Group of people living within defined territorial borders and sharing a common culture

Expected behavior associated with a particular status

Position in a social structure that is neither earned nor chosen but assigned to a person

Situation that occurs when a person has trouble meeting the many roles connected with a single status

Situation that exists when expectations for or performance of a role in one status clash with expectations for or performance of a role in another status

Behavior that individuals expect from others

Pattern of social relationships within a group

Position in a social structure that is earned or chosen

At least 2 people who have one or more goals in common and share ways of thinking and behaving

Group used for self-evaluation and the formation of attitudes, values, beliefs, norms, and mores

Group deliberately created to achieve one or more long-term goals

Web of social relationships that join a person to other people and groups

Exclusive group demanding extreme loyalty

Mind-set that emphasizes knowledge, reason and planning

People who are emotionally close, know one another well, and seek one another's company

Formal organization based on rationality and efficiency

Group targeted by an in-group for opposition, antagonism, or competition

People who share only part of their lives while focusing on a goal or task

Behavior that departs from societal or group norms

Ways to encourage conformity to society's norms

Undesirable label used to deny a deviant acceptance

Process of reducing the seriousness of the crimes that injure people of lower status

Deviance is more likely to occur when a gap exists between cultural goals, and the ability to achieve them

Theory that society creates deviance by identifying particular members as deviant

Act committed in violation of the law

Social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent

Job-related crimes committed by high-status people

Theory that compliance with social norms requires strong bonds between individuals and society

Ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will

Identification with the goals and interests of a social class

Based on the economic disparity between those at the bottom of a society and the rest of the society

Ranking of people or groups according to their unequal access to scarce resources

Movement of individuals/groups between social classes

Absence of enough money to secure life's necessities

Unequal distribution of wealth, power, and resources among the countries of the world

Segment of society whose members have similar economic circumstances, norms, and status

Trend in US society in which women/children make up an increasing proportion of the poor

Recognition, respect, and admiration attached to social positions