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centenarians | chronic diseases | Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) | employment-based health insurance | health | herd immunity | Hispanic mortality paradox | infant mortality rate | Medicaid | Medicare | medical industrial complex | medical sociology | medical tourism | mental illness | physician assisted suicide | sick role | socialized medicine | stigma
agents of socialization | anticipatory socialization | back stage | degradation ceremony | digital immigrants | digital natives | distance zones | dramaturgy | feral children | front stage | game stage | generalized other | hidden curriculum | high status youth | “I” | impression management | life course perspective | looking-glass self | “me” | peer | play stage | preparatory stage | resocialization | rite of passage | self | significant other | social learning theory | socialization | total institution
absolute poverty | achieved status | American Dream | ascribed status | blue-collar worker | caste system | class consciousness | class system | closed system | cultural capital | dependency theory | digital divide | estate system | Federal Poverty Line | feminization of poverty | global inequality | horizontal mobility | income | intragenerational mobility | intergenerational mobility | life chances | lower class | middle class | modernization theory | occupational prestige | open system | pink-collar worker | power | poverty rate | prestige | relative poverty | slavery system | social capital | social class | social inequality | social mobility | social reproduction | social status | social stratification | socioeconomic status | structural mobility | triple oppression | upper class | vertical mobility | wealth | wealth gap | white-collar worker | working poor | world-system theory
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agents of social control | anomie | capital punishment | collective conscience | containment theory | counterfeiting | crime | crime rate | criminal justice system | cyber crime | deviance | differential association theory | differential justice | formal social control | hate crime | incarceration rate | index crime | informal social control | labeling theory | plea bargains | primary deviance | secondary deviance | social control theory | social stigma | structural strain theory | tertiary deviance | terrorism | transnational crime | white collar crime
asexual | bisexual | cult of domesticity | femininity | feminism | feminists | gay rights movement | gender | gender identity | gender norms | gender roles | gender stratification | glass ceiling | glass escalator | heterosexuals | heterosexism | homophobia | homosexuals | honor killing | hookups | intersex | masculine-instrumental role | masculinity | matrix of domination | men’s rights movement | metrosexuals | second shift | sex | sex reassignment | sexism | sexual harassment | sexual orientation | sexuality | transgender | transsexuals | violence against women
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carrying capacity | collective behavior | contagion theory | convergence theory | crude birth rate | deindividuation | demography | emergent norm theory | fad | fertility rate | Gemeinschaft | Gesellschaft | global aging | graying of America | infant mortality rate | life expectancy | mechanical solidarity | megacities | mob mentality | moral panic | mortality | old-age dependency ratio | organic solidarity | population growth | pull factors | push factors | refugees | replacement level fertility | rural area | social movement | urban area | urbanism | urbanization
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