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Socialization
the process through which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of society and learn to function as its members (family, school, gender, etc.)
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Symbolic interaction
shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions from basic motivations behind people's actions
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Deviance
Nonconformity to a set of norms that are accepted by a significant portion of a community or society
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Stigma
negative social label that not only changes others' behavior toward a person but also alters that person's own self-concept and social identity
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Network properties
- Structure: how many people we're connected to
- Density: how well our friends know our friends, introducing people
- Centrality: how central we are in our network
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Impression management
- working consensus: help other ppl manage their impressions by not calling them out
- first impressions, changing language when talking to different groups
- "give" - verbal communication
- "give off" - non-verbal communication usually validating what was given but can also invalidate
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Institutions
standardized social systems
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Values of social capital
- information
- influence
- social credentials
- reinforcement
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Segregation
the uneven distribution of people across units by some social characteristic
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