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| Theory | a statement of how and why specific facts are related |
| Social Dysfunction | any social pattern that my disrupt the operation of society |
| Sociology | they systematic study of human society |
| Values | culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living |
| Beliefs | specific ideas that people hold to be true |
| Norms | rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
| Id | Freud's term for the human being's basic drives |
| Ego | Freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society |
| Superego | Freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual |
| Social Interaction | the process by which people act and react in realtion to others |
| Status | a social position that a person holds |
| Role | behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status |
| In-group | a social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty |
| Out-group | a social group toward which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition |
| Network | a web of weak social ties |
| Incest Taboo | a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives |
| Sex | the biological distiniction between females and males |
| Transsexuals | people who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other |
