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Altruistic Suicide
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Type of Suicide that occurs where ties to the group or community are considered more important than individual identity
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Anomic suicide
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Type of suicide that occurs when the structure of society is weakened or disrupted and people feel hopeless and disillusioned
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Comparative method
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Research technique that compares existing official statistics and historical records across groups to test a theory about some social phenomenon.
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Egoistic suicide
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Type of suicide that occurs in settings where the individual is emphasized over group or community connections
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Individualistic explaination
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Tendency to attribute peoples achievements and failures to their personal qualities
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Sociological imagination
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Ability to see the impact of social forces on our private lives
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Sociology
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Systematic study of human societies
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Achieved status
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Social position acquired through our own efforts or accomplishments or taken on voluntarily
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Ascribed status
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Social position acquired at birth or taken on involuntarily later in life
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Coalition
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Subgroup of a triad where two members unite against the third
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Conflict perspective
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Theoretical perspective that views the structure of society as a source of inequality, which always benefits some groups at the expense of others
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Culture
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Language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a society
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Dyad
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Group consisting of two people
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Feminist perspective
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Theoretical perspective that focuses on gender as the most important source of conflict and inequality in social life
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Globalization
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Process through which peoples lives all around the world become economically, politically, environmentally, and culturally interconnected
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