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| Authority | power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised |
| Biomedicalization | capacity of computer information and new technologies to extend medical surveillance and treatment interventions well beyond past boundaries |
| Deviance | any act or behavior that violates the social norms |
| Disease | an adverse physical state, consisting of a physiological dysfunction within an individual |
| Folkways | norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern |
| Ideal-type | a construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated |
| Illness | a subjective state pertaining to an individual’s psychological awareness of having a disease and causing the individual to modify his or her behavior |
| Labeling theory | an approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not |
| Medicalization | acts that have been seen as sin or crime become regarded as illnesses to be controlled through medical care |
| Mores | strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may not be violated without serious consequences in a particular culture. |
| Norms | expectations of appropriate behavior shared by people in a specific social setting |
| Prestige | the respect or regard with which a person or status position is regarded by others. |
| Sanctions | rewards or punishments awarded to the individual based upon compliance or noncompliance to social norms/font> |
| Sickness | a social state signifying impaired social role for those who are ill |
| Stigma | an attribute that is deeply discrediting resulting in a negative social reaction from others |
