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soc 110
chapters 3&4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| social interaction | refer to the ways in which people respond to one another. Need not be face to face. Can be on phone or in person. |
| social structure | the way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships |
| "definition of the situation" | could mold the thinking and personality of the individual. |
| 5 elements of social structure | statuses, social roles, groups, social networks, social institutions |
| status | refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or socitety from the lowest to the highest position. |
| ascribed status | "assigned" to a person by society without regard for the persons unique talents or characteristics. Generally assigned at birth.. ex. racial background, gender and age. |
| achieved status | earned..ex bank president, prison guard, lawyer, social worker |
| master status | dominates others and thereby determines a persons general position within society. |
| social role | set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status. |
| role conflict | occurs when incompatible expectations arize from two or more social positions held by the same person. |
| gemeinschaft | close knit type of community that characterizes rural life |
| gesellschaft | impersonal type of mass society that characterizes urban life |
| conformity | going along with peers |
| obedience | compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure. |
| functionalist | following status quo |
| conflict theorist | the haves keep the have nots in place at the bottom and set stuff up for themselves |
| marxist | stay what you are-false consciousness of the have nots |
| interactionism | interaction |
| what disrupts society | deviance |
| differential association | hang with criminals-become a criminal |
| labeling theory | labeled a criminal-become a criminal |
| milgram | obedience and conformity study |
| interactional vandalism | breaking every day social norms to a higher power |
| horn honking, urinal game, eye contact | social interaction lab |
| zip code lab | demographic study lab |
| what holds society together | cultures and subcultures |
| what pushes you from individuality to devience | labeling theory- people labe as deviant, so it is |
| when is deviance functional | when it creates jobs, shows us how to act, tells right from wrong |
| stigmatization | when something has a bed reputation just because ex. pres bush, war in iraq |
| stigma | negative label |
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