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Symbolic-Interactionist Perspective on Health Care

Biographies
Jessie Bernard
Patricia Hill Collins
Niklas Luhmann
Karl Marx
Robert K. Merton
Talcott Parsons
Herbert Spencer
Max Weber
Careers in Sociology
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Chapter 3: Culture and Society

Culture
Types of Culture
Society
Social Structure
Status
Roles
Aspects of Culture
Values
Norms
Symbols
Languages
Diversity
Sociobiology
Globalization and the Internet
Biographies
Napoleon Chagnon
Marvin Harris
Marshall McLuhan
William Graham Sumner
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Edward O. Wilson
Careers in Sociology
Additional Resources

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Chapter 4: Socialization and Social Interaction

Theories of Socialization
The Looking-Glass Self
The I and Me
Personality and Social Development
The Socialization Process
Total Institutions and Resocialization
Socialization and Social Interaction
Dramaturgy
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Globalization and the Internet

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Biographies
Peter Berger
Charles Horton Cooley
Sigmund Freud
Harold Garfinkel
Erving Goffman
George Herbert Mead
William I. Thomas
Careers in Sociology
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Chapter 5: Social Groups and Organizations

Social Groups
Reference Groups
Group Size
Networks
Group Dynamics
Group Formation
Leadership
Power
Conformity
Obedience
Group Decision Making
Institutions and Conformity
Formal Organizations
Bureaucracy
Oligarchy
The McDonaldization of Society
Globalization and the Internet
Biographies
Peter M. Blau
George Caspar Homans
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Kurt Lewin
Robert Michels
George Ritzer
Georg Simmel
Philip G. Zimbardo
Careers in Sociology
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Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control

Theories of Deviance
Biological Perspectives
Structural-Functionalist Perspectives
Social Bonds
Structural Strain
Opportunity Structures

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