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👩‍👩‍👦Intro to Sociology
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599 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Sociology exam

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Émile Durkheim

A

Absolute poverty
Acculturation
Achieved status
Achieved statuses
Achievement Gaps
Acting Crowds
Acting crowds
Activity Theory
Activity theory
Actor-Network Theory
Adolescent Socialization
Adult Socialization
Age Diversity
Age Stratification
Age Stratification Theory
Age stratification theory
Age-Friendly
Age-Friendly Communities
Age-Integration
Age-specific Fertility Rate
Aging in Place
Agrarian Societies
Agricultural societies
Albion Small
Alfred Kinsey
Algorithmic Bias
Alternative movements
Alzheimer's
Ambilineal
Anomie
Anomie
Anomie Theory
Anti-Globalization
Anticipatory Socialization
Anticipatory socialization
Ascribed status
Attachment in the Expanded Control Theory
Auguste Comte
Authoritarian Leadership

B

Bicultural Identity
Bigamy
Bilateral descent
Bilateral Kinship
Biological determinism
Biological Sex
Biomedical Model
Bisexuality
Blended Families
Blue-Collar
Broken Windows Theory

C

C. Wright Mills
Career inheritance
Carol Gilligan
Characteristics of a Bureaucracy
Charisma
Charles Horton Cooley
Charter Schools
Chicago School
Child Abuse
Childfree by Choice
Childhood Socialization
Childless Families
Civil Religion
Class Conflict
Class consciousness
Class Consciousness
Class Struggle
Class system
Class System
Climate Refugees
Cohabiting Families
Cohort Flow
Collective Action
Collective conscience