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The ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others

One of the influences of peer groups on socialization is that they allow children to learn how to form relationships on their own.

Most of the medical industry in the U.S. supports government provided healthcare (universal healthcare).

A legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant’s guilty plea:

When a researcher immerses him/herself in a group setting in order to make observations from an “insider” perspective.

The single greatest predictor of poverty in the United States is single-parent, female-headed households.

List 5 things you learned from this chapter that you didn’t already know. 

Compared to other high-income nations in the world, the U.S. is a religious country.

Rapid social changes helped trigger the development of Sociology.

The U.S. has the lowest divorce rate of any country in the world.