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| Attained by virtue EX: Police man |
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| Occupied from the moment person is born EX: your sex... GENDER is not ascribed, it is a social construct |
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| Collective Consciousness-5 |
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| Beliefs common to a community that give people a sense of belonging and a feeling of moral obligation to its demands and values. Durkheim-gives groups social solidarity b/c members feel they are part of one society |
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| Age, gender, race, class. Different tasks that develop in complex societies |
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| "people" "mode of study"; studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing attempt to restore normalcy |
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| human interaction has the characteristics of a "game", strategies, winners and losers, rewards and punishments |
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| "Community"; personalities tie, strong family relationships. EX: small community church |
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| "Society"; less intimate, increased importance of secondary relationships with people |
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| behavior between 2 or more people given meaning. how people relate and form social bond. |
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| Social interactions, include culture and social organization |
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| sociological approach that takes the broadest view of society by studying large patterns of social interaction that are vast, complex, and highly differentiated |
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| Focus on the smallest visible parts of social life. EX: specific people interacting with each other |
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| Order established in social groups. Bring regularity and predictability to human behavior |
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| Established system of social behavior with a recognized purpose |
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| Organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose society |
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| Members of society who hold the same values |
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| People play variety of roles, unity is based on different roles instead of similarity |
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| directly uses, modifies and/or tills the land as a major means of survival |
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| Information based society |
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| 1-interact.communicate 2-share goals and norms 3- subjective awareness of themselves as "we" |
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Rank in society
Set of status' occupied by a person at a given time |
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| Overrides features of a persons identity EX: being in a wheelchair, people only see that |
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| Imitate the behavior of another we admire who is in a particular role EX: wanting to be a skater cause your neighbor is a skater |
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| All the roles one occupies at a given time |
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Role Conflict-5
Role Strain-5 |
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2 or more roles are associated with contradictory expectations EX: Parent and a worker
Single role brings conflicting expectations |
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| Patterns of touch EX: boys touched more roughly, girls more gently |
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| group consisting of exactly 2 people |
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| Interested in discovering the effects of size on groups |
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| Served by secondary groups. EX: Athletic teams for to have fun and win games |
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| We all make inferences about the personalities of others |
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| errors made in attributing causes for people's behavior to their membership in a group EX: Racial groups, men vs women |
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| Goals that are worthwhile EX: Charitable organizations, PTA |
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| Prisons, mental hospitals. Forced to join |
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| Utilitarian Organizations-6 |
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| Joined for the purpose of monetary rewards. EX: For-Profit, Microsoft. Non-Profit, Colleges, churches (get a salary but don't have product) |
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| efficiency, calculability, and control in industries |
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Primary groups- building blocks of social interaction
Reference groups-form attitudes and life goals
Social networks- who we know and kind of jobs we get |
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| Social Differencentiation-8 |
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| Diff statuses develope in a group. EX: football player, cheerleaders, coaches-- all in the same organization but diff statuses |
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| Structured social inequality- EX: Sports teams, some players get paid more |
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| Ownership of property and exercise of power is monopolized by an elite- Nobles, priesthood, commoners |
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| Quality given to individual at birth |
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| Placement can change according to personal achievements, depends on ACHIEVED STATUS, more open then caste system |
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| Position groups hold relative to the economic, social, political, and cultural resources of society |
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| Opportunities people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class |
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| Income, occupational prestige, education |
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| total value of what one owns, minus one's debt |
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Prestige-8
Occupational Prestige-8 |
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P-value others assign to people
OP- evaluation people give to a job |
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| 1st- amount of money person receives in given period |
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| 3rd- total years of formal education |
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| group comes to be defined as a race |
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| Out-group homogeneity effect-10 |
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| all members of out group are perceived similar |
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| one's group is superior to all other groups |
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