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| Organization | Any social network that is defined by a common purpose and that has a boundary between its membership and the rest of the social world |
| Organizational culture | Shared beliefs and behaviors within social groups. It is often used interchangeably with corporate culture. |
| Organizational structure | The ways in which power and authority are distributed within an organization. |
| Isomorphism | A constraining process that forces one unit in a population to resemble other units that face the same set of environmental conditions. |
| Social deviance | A behavior, trait, belief, or other characteristic that violates a norm and causes a negative sanction. |
| Informal deviance | Minor violations |
| Formal deviance/crime | Violation of societal laws |
| Social cohesion | People coming together and forming social bonds, relating to each other, and getting along on a daily basis. |
| Organic solidarity | Describes the type of social bonds present in modern societies, based on difference, interdependence, and individual rights. |
| Mechanical solidarity | Describes the type of social bonds present in premodern, agrarian societies, in which shared tradition and belifs created a sense of social cohesion |
| Collective conscience | The set of assumptions about how the world works. Without which there would be no sense of moral unity, and a society would quickly dissolve into chaos. |
