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social structure
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is a set of interralted social institutions develped by human beings to impose constraints on life
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social institutions
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patterned ways of solving the problems and meeting the requirements of a partiuclar society
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statuses
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are specific social positions, roles
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Gini index
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which measures the extent to which the distribution of income within a country deviates from a perfecty equal distribution
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government and political institution
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is responsivle for how decisions get made and enforced for the sociey as a whole
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neocolonialism
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promoted by such international organizations as the World Bank, the Internation Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization
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transnational corporation
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which carry on production and distribution activites in many nations
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neoliberal philosophy
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that overnemtn shold keep their efforts to monitor and control the economic instiution took hold
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devolution
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become the code word for passing responsiblities tot state and local government
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new federalism
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This downward moverment
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economic institution
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the primary responsibilty for regulation the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services
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bifurcare
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or divide into two branches
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downsizing
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corporate layoff ow workers for the purpose of greater efficiency
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education institution
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has been to pass along formal knowledge from one generation to the next
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healthcare care instiution
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is the primary one for promoting the general health of a society
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therapeutic medicine
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diagnosing and treating disease
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social welfare institution
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functions to promote interdependence and to deal with issues of dependence.individuals are interdependent with institutions
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religious institution
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is the primary one for addressing spiritual and ethical issues.
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mass media institution
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is the primary institution for managing the flow of information, imanges and ideas among all memebers of society.
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family and kinshp institution
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is primarily responsible for the regulation of prcreation, for the intial socialization of new members of society and for mutua support
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social class
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is the term generally used by sociologists to describe contemporary structues of inequaltiy
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conservative thesis
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inequality is the natural, divine order and no efforts should be made to alter
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radical antithesis
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equality is the natura, divine, order, inequality is based on abouse of privilege and should be minimized
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critical consciouness
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can be defined as an onging process of relection and knowledge seeking about mechanisms and outcome of social, political, and econmonic oppression
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