T & U
 

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[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TABOO. A socio-cultural prohibition on some act, person, place, animal, or plant.[/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TECHNOLOGY. The application of logic, reason and knowledge to the problems of exploiting raw materials from the environment. Social technologies employ the same thought processes in addressing problems of human organization. Technology involves the creation of material instruments (such as machines) used in human interaction with nature as well as social instruments (such as bureaucracy) used in human organization .[/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TERRORISM. The use of violence to achieve political ends. Many would restrict the definition to include only those acts committed by non-government groups, but state terrorism is also a major factor in the social world. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TERTIARY SECTOR. That part of an economy that provides services (nursing homes, psychological counseling, and so forth)--engaged in by both private and government entitities. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']THEORY. Summary statements of general principles which explain regularly observed events. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']THIRD WORLD. Societies in which industrial production is only developed to a limited degree. Many of these societies were former colonies of industrial states. The majority of the world's population (over 70 percent) live in [/font][/color][color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']Third World[/font][/color][color=black][font='Bookman Old Style'] countries. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TOTAL INSTITUTION. An organization in which individuals are isolated for long periods of time as their lives are controlled and regulated by the administration of the organization--such as a prison, mental hospital, or army boot camps . [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TOTAL WAR. Warfare in which all the resources of the modern state are committed including a large proportion of the population (both directly and indirectly), all of the armed forces, and a large proportion of the industrial sector of the society. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TOTALITARIANISM. Authoritarian government that attempts to regulate every aspect of socio-cultural life. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TOTEMISM. A system of religious belief studied by Durkheim which attributes sacred qualities to a particular type of animal or plant. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TOTEMS. Symbol associated with a descent group as an identifying insignia. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TRADING NETWORKS. Patterns of economic exchange between companies or countries. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TRADITIONAL STATES. Societies in which the production base is agriculture or pastoralism.[/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TRANSFORMATIVE MOVEMENT. A social movement to produce major social change in a society. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']TRANSITIONAL CLASSES. Marx's term to refer to social classes based on previous relations of production which linger on in the beginning stages a new one--such as peasants or landowners of a feudal system which has become capitalist. [/font][/color]

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[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']UNCONSCIOUS. Freudian concept referring to motives and ideas unavailable to the conscious mind of the individual.[/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']UNDERCLASS. A class of individuals in mature industrial societies situated at the bottom of the class system that have been systematically excluded from participation in economic life. The underclass is normally composed of people from ethnic or minority groups. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']UNILINEAR EVOLUTION. A largely discredited view of social evolution according to which all societies pass through the same stages of development. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']UNION[/font][/color][color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']. A social organization set up to represent the worker's interests in both the workplace and in the broader society as well. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']UPPER CLASS. A social class roughly composed of the more affluent members of society, especially those who have great wealth, control over businesses or hold large numbers of stocks and shares. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']URBAN RENEWAL. Governmental programs of encouraging the renovation of deteriorating city neighborhoods through the renovation or destruction of old buildings and the construction of new ones. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']URBAN ECOLOGY. An analysis of urban life that examines the relationship between the city and its physical surroundings--based on an analogy with the adjustment of plants and organisms to the physical environment. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']URBANIZATION. The increasing concentration of the human population into cities. [/font][/color]

V, W & Z
 

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[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']VALUES. Culturally defined standards held by human individuals or groups about what is desirable, proper, beautiful, and good or bad that serve as broad guidelines for social life.[/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']VARIABLE. A characteristic that varies in value or magnitude along which an object, individual or group may be categorized, such as income or age. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']VERTICAL MOBILITY. Movement up or down a social stratification system . [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']VESTED INTEREST. An expectation of private gain that often underlies the expressed interest in a public issue. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']VICTIMLESS CRIME. Violation of law in which there is no other person (aside from the offender) victimized, such as drug-taking or illegal gambling. [/font][/color]

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[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']WELFARE. Government aid (in the form of services and money) to the poor.[/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']WEALTH. Accumulated money and material possessions controlled by an individual, group or organization. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']WEALTHFARE. Government aid to the upper and middle classes. Often times this aid is disguised in the form of tax breaks (a deduction for interest on home mortgages) or subsidized services (higher education). [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']WELFARE STATE. A government system which provides a range of human services for its citizens. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']WHITE-COLLAR CRIME. Criminal activities carried out by white-collar or professional workers in the course of their jobs. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']WORKING CLASS. A social class of industrial societies broadly composed of people involved in manual occupation. The bulk of these jobs are unskilled, poorly paid and provide few benefits or job security. [/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']WORLD SYSTEM THEORY. Immanuel Wallerstein's theoretical approach which analyzes societies in terms of their position within global systems. [/font][/color]

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[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']ZERO POPULATION GROWTH (ZPG). Population stability achieved when each woman has no more than two children.[/font][/color]

[color=black][font='Bookman Old Style']ZWECK-RATIONAL. Rational action in relation to a goal. From Max Weber used extensively in his theory of social action. [/font][/color]