Those groups toward which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition
The structured inequality characterized by groups of people with differential access to the rewards of society because of their relative position in the social hierarchy
Term coined by Mills to describe a means of knowledge that expresses both an understanding that personal troubles can and often do reflect broader social issues and problems and also faith in the capacity of human beings to alter the course of human history; expresses the humanistic aspect of the sociological perspective
Piaget's stage of development in which infants are unable to differentiate themselves from their environment; they are unaware that their actions produce results, and they lack the understanding that objects exist separate from the direct and immediate experience of touching, looking, sucking, and listening