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• Positive and Negative Group- Newscomb
• Membership& Non- membership group- Merton
• Marginal Man- Adorno
• Status situation- Lockwood
• Status Symbol- Pack and Bourdien
• Structuralism- Levi Strauss
• Structuration- Anthony Giddens
• Status Set- Merton
• Status sequence- Merton
• Relative Deprivation- Stouffer, Merton
• Role Distance- Goffmann
• Roleset- Merton
• Patterns of culture- Ruth Benedict
• Ethos- Kroeber
• Primary and Secondary deviance- Lemert
• Theory of Moral development- Piaget
• Social distance- Bogardus
• Social Position- A.R.Brown
• Societal System- A.G Keller
• Sociography- F.Tonnies Sociometry- J.L Moreno
• Spiralist- Bell
• Social Character- Eric Fromm
• Social Fact- Durkheim
• Differential Association Theory- Sutherland