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Sociology Terms
Sociology
| Term | definition | technology |
|---|---|---|
| Digital divide | The relative lack of access to the latest technologies among low-income groups, racial and ethnic minorities, rural residents, and the citizens of developing countries. | |
| Dominant ideology | A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests. | |
| Gatekeeping | The process by which a relatively small number of people in the media industry control what material eventually reaches the audience. | |
| Mass media | Print and electronic means of communication that carry messages to widespread audiences. | |
| Narcotizing dysfunction | The phenomenon in which the media provide such massive amounts of coverage that the audience becomes numb and fails to act on the information, regardless of how compelling the issue. | |
| Opinion leader | Someone who influences the opinions and decisions of others through day-to-day personal contact and communication. | |
| Stereotype | An unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual differences within the group. | |
| Social Institutions | Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs | |
| Social Interaction | The ways in which people respond to one another | |
| Social Network | A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and through them indirectly to still more people | |
| conflict theory | emphasizes the role that a person's or group's ability to exercise influence and control over others, in producing social order. It states that a society or organization functions so that each individual participant and its groups struggle to maximize the | |
| Alienation | A condition of estrangement or dissociation from the surrounding society. | |
| Coalition | A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal. | |
| Ideal type | A construct or model for evaluating specific cases. | |
| Horticultural society | A preindustrial society in which people plant seeds and crops rather than merely subsist on available foods. | |
| McDonaldization | The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world. | |
| Mechanical solidarity | A collective consciousness that emphasizes group solidarity, characteristic of societies with minimal division of labor. | |
| Net neutrality | The principle that the government should remain nonselective of neutral toward online content. | |
| Organic solidarity | A collective consciousness that rests on mutual interdependence, characteristic of societies with a complex division of labor. |
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