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- are people who sell their productive labor for wages.
- Proletarians
- is Marx's term for explanations of social problems as the shortcomings of individuals rather than as the flaws of society.
- False consciousness
- is Marx's term for workers' recognition of themselves as a class unified in opposition to capitalists and, ultimately, to capitalism itself.
- Class consciousness
- is the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture.
- Socialization
- is a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling.
- Personality
- are impersonal communications aimed at a vast audience.
- Mass media
- is a category of people with common characteristics, usually their age.
- Cohort
- is a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff.
- Total institution
- is a social position a person receives at birth or assumes involuntarily later in life.
- Ascribed status
- is a social position a person assumes voluntarily that reflects ability and effort.
- Achieved status
- is a status that a society defines as having special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life.
- Master status
- is the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction.
- Social construction of reality
- is the assertion that situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences.
- Thomas theorem
- is the recognized violation of cultural norms.
- Deviance
- is a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity.
- Stigma
- is the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition.
- Medicalization of deviance
- is crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations.
- White-collar crime
- is the deprivation of some people in relation to those who have more.
- Relative poverty
- is a deprivation of resources that is life-threatening.
- Absolute poverty
- is a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important.
- Race
- is a shared cultural heritage.
- Ethnicity