Nonverbal interaction		a large group of people who rank close to one another in wealth, power, and prestige.
Reliability		stages of our life as we got from birth to death
Social Inequality		General statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work
Macrosociology		the framework that surrounds us
total institution		analysis of social life that focuses on broad features of society
Nonmaterial Culture		A social condition in which privileges and obligations are given to some but denied to others
Division of labor		One anticipates a future role, one learns parts of it now
Theory		the ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another
Microsociology		Examine large-scale patterns in society
Validity		the splitting of a group's or society's tasks into specialties
Pluralistic Society		the use of one's culture for judging the ways of other individuals or societies
Taboo		items used to identify a status
Society		values that fit together
Achieved status		the extent to which research produces reliable results
Culture shock		the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group
Life course		Disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a different culture
Ethnocentrism		collection of data by having people answer a series of questions
Macro-Level		what people do when they are in one anothers presence
Social structure		Group's expectations, or rules of behavior.
superego		Marx's term for the struggle between capitalist and workers
Norms		Society made up of many different groups
Value cluster		Forms of communication
Resocialization		the wyas in which society sets children onto different courses in life becuase they are male or female
Class Conflict		the extent to which an operational defination measures what it was intended to measure
Socialization		People who respond to a survey, to express their own opinions
Respondents		analysis of social life that focuses on social interaction
Sanctions		the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors
Social class		a group of individuals of roughly the same age who are linked by a common interest
Mass media		position that is earned, is accomplised, or involves at least some effort of activity on the individuals part
Anticipatory Socialization		Factors that vary
Ascribed status		Freud's term for the conscience, the mornas and values that we have internalized
Social institutions		gestures
Gender Socialization		expressions of approval or disapproval given to people for upholding or violating norms
Social interaction		the organized,usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs
Gestures		a norm so strong that it often brings revulsion if violated
Survey		Groups way of thinking and doing
Variables		Material objects that distinguish as group of people.
Status symbols		A group of people who share a culture and a territory
Material Culture		position that an individual either inherits at birth or recieves involuntarilly later in life
Peer group		a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place