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| Adolescence | Period between the normal onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood. |
| Bureaucracy | Ranked authority structure that operates according to specific rules and procedures. |
| Counterculture | Group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of society as a whole & creates their own culture. |
| Culture | All the shared products of human groups. |
| Diffusion | The spreading of culture traits form one society to another. |
| Ethnocentrism | Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all others. |
| Group | Set of two or more people who interact on the basis of shared expectations. |
| Internalization | Process by which a norm becomes a part of an individuals personality. |
| Norms | Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. |
| Personality | Sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual. |
| Puberty | Physical maturing that makes an individual capable of sexual reproduction. |
| Role | Behavior expected of someone occupying a particular status. |
| Sanctions | Rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms. |
| Social Interaction | How people relate to one another and influence each other's behavior. |
| Society | Group of mutually dependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity. |
| Sociological Imagination | The ability to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives. |
| Sociology | Social science that studies human society and social behavior. |
| Status | Socially defined position in a group or society. |
| Symbol | Anything that stands for something else and has a shared meaning attached to it. |
| Values | Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right, or wrong, desirable or undesirable. |
