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SOC 130 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Structure and Personality is based on the idea that people are most impacted by society through their immediate social surroundings. | Proximity principle |
| Social Structure and Personality emphasizes the ways that individuals process proximal experiences. | Psychology principle |
| Social Structure and Personality states that we must be able to identify the elements of society most likely to impact individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (e.g. statuses, relative position in society, roles, expectations, norms, etc.) | Components principle |
| include family and close friends who interact on the basis of emotional attachments | Primary group |
| Those groups we affiliate with to achieve a specific goal or goals Reference group | Secondary group |
| Are ones that may not include any physical interaction but people still employ them in making decisions. | Reference group |
| Four basic processes involved in the study of inequality Refers to the ability to obtain what we want despite resistance | power. |
| Four basic processes involved in the study of inequality Our relative position in a group. | statu |
| Four basic processes involved in the study of inequality Refers to perceptions of fairness when distributing things within a group | Justice. |
| Four basic processes involved in the study of inequality he sense that distributions are fair, regardless of how much people get in a group. | Legitimacy. |
| is based on the principle that people enter groups that provide them some benefit and leave groups when they perceive that they are not receiving a benefit from them. | Social exchange theory |
| The principle that individuals will continue relationships as long as they receive about as much from a group as they put into it. | Reciprocity principle |
| the principle that the value of what is exchanged may be reduced over time, thus explaining why people may end relationships even if they perceive them to be reciprocal. | Satiation principle |
| theory that Focuses on the ways that outside characteristics may influence the group, | Status characteristics theory |
| Include those statuses that are important under specific conditions. | Specific status characteristics |
| Statuses that may influence the outcomes of all exchange relationships | Diffuse status characteristics |
| Is the study of the relative impact of social and biological factors on individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. | Sociobiology |