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The systematic, widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Industry:Sociology
The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Industry:Sociology
A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Industry:Sociology
Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Industry:Sociology
The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Industry:Sociology
The number of deaths per 1,000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Industry:Sociology
A neighborhood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Industry:Sociology
An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions, in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Industry:Sociology
Due to the stereotyping, this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Industry:Sociology
An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Industry:Sociology
