Social Interaction and Social Structure
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            system of social interaction that includes both culture and social organization
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        society
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            behavior between two or more people that is given meaning by them
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        social interaction
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            takes the broadest view of society by studying large patterns of oscial interaction that are vast, complex, and highly differentiated
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        macroanalysis
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            focus is on the smallest, most immediately visible parts of social life
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        microanalysis
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            established and organized sstem of social behavior with a recognized purpose
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        social institution
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            organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose society
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        social structure
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            body of beliefs common to a community or society that give people a sense of belonging and a feeling of moral obligation to its demands and values
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        collective consciousness
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            arises when individuals play similar roles within a society
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        mechanical solidarity
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            when people play a great variety of role and unity is based on role differentiation, not similarity
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        organic solidarity
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            relatedness of different tasks that develop in complex societies
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        division of labor
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            "community"
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        gemeinschaft
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            "society"
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        gesellschaft
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            directly uses and tills the land as a major means of survival
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        preindustrial society
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            depends economically on the production and distribution of services, information, and knowlege
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        postindustrial society
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            collection of individuals who interact and communicate with eachother, share goals and norms, and have a subjective awareness of themselves as "we"
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        group
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            established positionin a social structure that carries with it a degree of prestige
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        status
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            complete set of statuses occupied by a person at a given time
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        status set
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            statuses occupied by a person bring with them significantly different amounts of prestige and thus differing expectations
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        status inconsistencey
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            attained by virtue or individual effort
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        achieved statuses
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            occupied from the moment a person is born
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        ascribed status
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            one status is dominant
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        master status
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            behavior others expect from a person associated with the particular status
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        role
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            process by which we imitate the behavior of another person we admire who is in a particular role
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        role modeling
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            includes all the roles occupied by the person at a given time
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        role set
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            wherein two or more roles are associated with contradictory expectations
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        role conflict
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            single role brings conflicting expectations
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        role strain
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            amount of space between interacting individuals
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        proximic communication
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            technique for studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy
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        ethnomethodology
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            process by which people control how others perceive of them
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        impression management
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            when people interact and communicate with one another by means of personal computers
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        cyberspace interaction