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Conformity
Behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.
Deviance
Departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.
Conformist
A person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices.
Deviant
Behavior that violates significant social norms and is disapproved by the majority of people.
Variety of Deviance
The study of why people violate laws or norms and how society reacts to these violations.
Reasons for Deviance
Different perspectives on the causes of deviance, including factors from within the individual, outside the individual, and differences in personalities.
Primary Deviance
Behavior that violates or does not conform to a prescribed norm of conduct but is tolerated and concealed by others.
Secondary Deviance
Behavior of a lifetime conformist or the behavior of a branded criminal.
Individual Deviance
Violation against a group's norm or subculture.
Group Deviance
Act of the members of a group conforming to the group's norms but disagreeing with norms of the larger society.
Innovation
Accepting the goals of society but rejecting the conventional means of attaining them.
Innovators
Individuals who accept the cultural goals of society but reject the conventional methods of attaining them.
Ritualism
Giving up important social values but observing related norms of behavior.
Ritualist
Person who does not believe in the established cultural goals of society but abides by the means of attaining those goals.
Retreatism
Rejection of both values and norms, often resulting in "dropping out" of society.
Retreatist
Person who rejects both the cultural goals and the accepted means of attaining those goals.
Rebellion
Rejecting both ends and means, and attempting to replace the prevailing order.
Rebels
Individuals who not only reject the established cultural goals and means but also substitute new goals and methods of attaining them.
Social Control
Techniques and strategies for regulating human behavior in society.
Formal Social Control
Takes place through legal punishments and sanctions by a legitimate authority.
Informal Social Control
Enforced by members of a community or society rather than by law.
Shaming
Humiliating or ridiculing someone for socially unwanted or deviant behavior.
Praising
Expressions of approval and positive feedback to encourage socially desired behavior.
Gossiping
Spreading rumors or information about an individual as a means of social control.
Physical Aggression
Using physical force through hitting, pushing, kicking, or other forms of aggression as a form of social control.
Informal Dress Code
Enforcing unwritten rules or expectations about fashion styles and ways of dress as a means of social control.
Human Dignity
Respect and acknowledgement of an individual person, a human being.
Violations Against Human Dignity
Humiliation, degradation, dehumanization, and objectification.
Human Rights
Legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement.
Natural Rights
Rights inherent to man and given to him by God as a human being.
Statutory Rights
Rights provided by the law-making body of a country or by a law.
Constitutional Rights
Rights guaranteed under the fundamental charter of the country.
Civil Rights
Rights specified under the Bill of Rights.
Social and Economic Rights
Intended to ensure the well-being and economic security of an individual.
Political Rights
Right to vote and right to be voted into public office.
Rights of the Accused
Intended for the protection of a person accused of any crime.
Common Good
The sum of conditions of social life that allow social groups and their individual members relatively thorough and ready access to their own fulfillment.
Social Aggregates
A simple collection of people who happen to be together in a particular place but do not significantly interact or identify with one another.
Social Categories
People who share a common characteristic but do not necessarily interact or identify with one another.
Social Group
A collection of people who regularly interact with one another based on shared expectations and a sense of common identity.
Primary Group
A small group whose members share close, personal, and enduring relationships.
Secondary Group
Can be small or large, impersonal, and usually short-term.
In-Group
Social groups to which an individual feels they belong and feels loyalty and respect for.
Out-Group
Social groups that an individual does not identify with and feels antagonism and contempt for.
Reference Group
A group with which individuals compare themselves and seek a character connection.
Networks
Sets of formal and informal social ties that link people to each other.
Institution
A society or organization founded for
Bilateral Descent
Societies trace their descent through both parents' ancestors.
Kinship by Marriage
Relations developed when a marriage occurs.
Marriage
Institution where two individuals enter into family life and declare their union as a lifetime couple.
Endogamy
Social rule stating that a partner must be selected from one's own social group.
Exogamy
Rule proclaiming that a partner must be chosen from a different group.
Monogamy
Marriage or sexual partnering practice where an individual has only one partner.
Polygamy
Practice of having more than one partner, either polygyny (multiple partners for a man) or polyandry (multiple male partners for a woman).
Arranged Marriage
Marriage arranged by family, community, or religious group to ensure the most appropriate match.
Group Marriage
Marriage of several men with several women.
Patrilocal
Rule of residence where married couples stay with the husband's relatives or near the husband's kin.
Matrilocal
Rule of residence where couples live with the wife's relatives or near the wife's kin.
Biolocal
Residence where newlywed couples stay with both husband's relatives and wife's kin alternately.
Compadrazgo
Ritualized form of forging co-parenthood or family through Catholic rituals like baptism, confirmation, and marriage.
Family
Basic unit of organization, consisting of individuals linked by marriage, blood relations, or adoptions.
Household
Either one person living alone or a group of people living together who share living arrangements.
Nuclear Family
Family made up of two adults and their socially recognized children.
Extended Family
Family beyond the nuclear family, including parents, offspring, and other relatives.
Blended Family
Family where parents have children from previous relationships and form a new family unit.
Political Dynasty
System of succession of political leaders from the same family or clan.
Education
Social institution that formally socializes members of society and transmits skills, knowledge, and values.
Formal Education
Education based on a set curriculum provided in educational institutions and training centers.
Primary Education
First level of formal education.
Secondary Education
Second level of formal education.
Tertiary Education
Third level of formal education.
Nonformal Education
Organized educational activity outside a formal setup, with no age limit.
Informal Education
Lifelong process of learning through daily experiences at home, work, play, and life itself.
Functions of Education
Training in skills, preparing for jobs, preserving culture, encouraging democratic participation, developing critical thinking, enriching life, improving personal adjustment, improving youth health, producing nationalistic citizens, building personal character.
Productive Citizenry
Idea that citizens can create opportunities to become productive.
Self-Actualization
Desire for self-fulfillment and achieving dreams and aspirations in life.
Primary Education as Human Right
Education is a fundamental human right, with primary education being free and compulsory.
Curriculum Goals
Inculcate patriotism and nationalism, foster love of humanity, promote respect for human rights, appreciate national heroes, strengthen ethical and spiritual values, develop moral character and personal discipline, encourage critical and creative thinking, broaden scientific and technological knowledge, promote vocational efficiency.