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Sociology, Social Structure

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Status   Generally one’s position or location in a group or social structure  
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Family Status   mother, father, child, grandparent  
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Occupational Status   lawyer, physician, firefighter, computer programmer  
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Achieved Status   A status earned by the individual through his or her own efforts, achievement, or choice. (ex. occupation, education, income, -- )  
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Ascribed Status   A status that is bestowed upon an individual, regardless of his or her efforts or wishes (Ex. race, age, gender, and ethnicity, appearance, group)  
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Status Symbol   Visible clues to an individuals status ; for example a police officers badge, wedding rings  
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Role   The sum of expectations about the behavior of people who occupy a particular status  
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Role Strain   the stress or tension that may arise from the performance of a role  
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Status inconsistency   occurs when an individual’s ascribed and achieved statuses are deemed (by others) to be inconsistent  
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Role Conflict   the demands of the many roles assigned clash  
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Master Status   the status that other deem most telling about an individual; acts as a filter through which the individual’s actions are judged  
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Group Social   two or more individuals who regularly interact with one another, share goals and a sense of identity  
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Primary Group   term coined by C. H. Cooley to refer to small, intimate group in which relationships tend to be Gemeinschaft  
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Secondary Group   Non-intimate group of people whose relationships tend to be Gesellschaft  
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Formal Organization   Group created and formally organized to achieve some specific goal or set of goals  
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Ideal Types   a methodological strategy made famous by Max Weber. An ideal type is an “analytic construct” (it exists only in the abstract)  
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Bureaucracy   a type of formal organization that is characterized by distinct lines of authority, a hierarchy of positions, record keeping, rules against nepotism, and so forth  
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Iron cage of Bureaucracy   Term used by Weber to refer to situations in which people in organizations became so wrapped up in following rules and procedures that they forget why they work so hard  
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Goal Displacement   when the process becomes more important than the outcome  
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