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Sociology
Exam #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Achieved Statuses | Status secured through effort and ability |
| Ascribed Statuses | Statuses assigned to individuals without reference to their abilities or efforts |
| Dramaturgy | Analyzes social interaction as if participants were actors in an ongoing drama |
| Ethnomethodology | A way of analyzing the "taken-for-granted" aspects that give meaning to social interaction |
| Impression Management | ways that people use revelation and concealment to make a favorable impression on others |
| Master Status | A status that dominates all other statuses |
| Nonverbal Communication | The body movements, gestures, and facial expressions that we use to communicate with others |
| Personal Space | An area around our body that we reserve for ourselves, intimate acquaintances, and close friends |
| Role | A set of expectations, rights, and duties that are attached to a particular status |
| Role Conflict | When a person can't fulfil the roles of one status without violating those of another |
| Role Distance | When people play a role but remain detached from it to avoid any negative aspects of the role |
| Role Embracement | when a persons sense of identity is partially influenced by a role |
| Aggregate | a collection of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time |
| Bureaucracy | a large-scale organization that uses rules, hierarchical ranking, and a rational worldview to achieve maximum efficiency |
| Bureaucratic Ritualism | workers conform to rules and procedures to such a degree that they become more important than goals |
| Category | people with similar social characteristics or a common status |
| dyad | a two person group |
| formal organizations | secondary groups that are formally organized to achieve specific goals |
| groupthink | decision making that ignores alternative solutions in order to maintain group harmony |
| in-group | a group which people identify and have a sense of belonging |
| media conglomerates | large corperations that own mass amounts of all types of media including, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, and the internet |
| out-group | a group that people do not identify with and consider less worthy and less desirable than their own |
| primary group | people who regularly interact and have close enduring relationships |
| reference groups | groups that people refer to when evaluating their personal qualities, circumstances, attitudes, values, and behaviors |
| secondary group | two or more people who interact on a formal and impersonal basis to accomplish a specific objective |
| social boundaries | material or symbolic devices that identify who is inside or outside a group |
| social group | two or more people who interact in patterned ways, have a feeling of unity, and share interests and expectations |
| triad | a three member group |
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