Upgrade to remove ads
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Society, Social Structure, and Interaction in Everyday Life

        Help!  

Question
Answer
the process by which people act toward or respond to other people   Social Interaction  
🗑
The complex framework of societal institutions (such as the economy, politics, and religion) and the social practices (such as rules and social roles) that make up a society and that organize and establish limits on people's behavior   Social Structure  
🗑
The state of being part insider and part outsider in the social structure   Social Marginality  
🗑
Any physical or social attribute or sign that so devalues a person's social identity that it disqualifies that person from full social acceptance   Stigma  
🗑
A socially defined position in a group or society characterized by certain expectations, rights, and duties   Status  
🗑
Comprises all the statuses that a person occupies at a given time   Status Set  
🗑
A social position conferred at birth or received involuntarily later in life, based on attributes over which the individual has little or no control, such as race/ethnicity, age, and gender   Ascribed Status  
🗑
A social position a person assumes voluntarily as a result of personal choice, merit, or direct effort   Achieved Status  
🗑
The most important status a person occupies   Master Status  
🗑
Material signs that inform others of a person's specific status   Status symbols  
🗑
A set of behavioral expectations associated with a given status   Role  
🗑
A group's or society's definition of the way a specific role ought to be played   Role Expectation  
🗑
How a person actually plays the role   Role Performance  
🗑
Occurs when incompatible role demands are placed on a person by two or more statuses held at the same time   Role Conflict  
🗑
Occurs when incompatible demands are built into a single status that a person occupies   Role Strain  
🗑
Occurs when people consciously foster the impression of a lack of commitment or attachment to a particular role and merely go through the motions of role performance   Role Distancing  
🗑
Occurs when people disengage from social roles that have been central to their self-identity   Role Exit  
🗑
Consists of two or more people who interact frequently and share a common identity and a feeling of interdependence   Social Group  
🗑
A small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotion-based interactions over an extended period of time   Primary Group  
🗑
A larger, more specialized group in which members engage in more-impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time   Secondary Group  
🗑
Refers to a group's ability to maintain itself in the face of obstacles; cohesion   Social Solidarity  
🗑
A series of social relationships that links an individual to others   Social Network  
🗑
A highly structured group formed for the purpose of completing certain tasks or achieving specific goals   Formal Organization  
🗑
A set of organized beliefs and rules that establishes how a society will attempt to meet its basic social needs   Social Institution  
🗑
The methods and tools that are available for acquiring the basic needs of daily life   Subsistence Technology  
🗑
Use simple technology for hunting animals and gathering vegetation   Hunting and Gathering Societies  
🗑
Based on technology that supports the domestication of large animals to provide food   Pastoral Societies  
🗑
Based on technology that supports the cultivation of plants to provide food   Horticultural Societies  
🗑
Remaining settled for longer periods in the same location   Sedentary  
🗑
Use the technology of large-scale farming, including animal-drawn or energy-powered plows and equipment, to produce their food supply   Agrarian Societies  
🗑
Based on technology that mechanizes production   Industrial Societies  
🗑
One in which technology supports a service- and information-based economy   Post-Industrial Society  
🗑
People around the world communicate with one another by cell phone, e-mail, social networking, and the Internet   Global Village  
🗑
A classification scheme containing two or more mutually exclusive categories that are used to compare different kinds of behavior or types of societies   Typology  
🗑
Refers to the social cohesion of preindustrial societies, in which there is minimal division of labor and people feel united by shared values and common social bonds   Mechanical Solidarity  
🗑
The social cohesion found in industrial (and perhaps postindustrial) societies in which people perform very specialized tasks and feel united by their mutual dependence   Organic Solidarity  
🗑
A traditional society in which social relationships are based on personal bonds of friendship and kinship and on intergenerational stability; means "commune" or "community"   Gemeinschaft  
🗑
A large, urban society in which social bonds are based on impersonal and specialized relationships, with little long-term commitment to the group or consensus on values; means "association"   Gesellschaft  
🗑
The ways in which an individual shows an awareness that another is present without making this person the object of particular attention   Civil Inattention  
🗑
Regulates the form and processes (but not the content)of social interaction   Interaction Order  
🗑
The process by which our perception of reality is largely shaped by the subjective meaning that we give to an experience   Social Construction of Reality  
🗑
Analyze a social context in which we find ourselves, determine what is in our best interest, and adjust our attitudes and actions accordingly   Definition of the Situation  
🗑
A false belief or prediction that produces behavior that makes the originally false belief come true   Self-Fulfilling Prophecy  
🗑
The study of the commonsense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves   Enthnomethodology  
🗑
People or folk   Ethno  
🗑
A system of methods   Methodology  
🗑
The study of social interaction that compares everyday life to a theatrical presentation   Dramaturgical Analysis  
🗑
Refers to people's efforts to present themselves to others in ways that are most favorable to their own interests or image   Impression Management (Presentation of Self)  
🗑
Refers to the strategies we use to rescue our performance when we experience a potential or actual loss of face   Face-Saving Behavior  
🗑
A face-saving technique in which one role-player ignores the flaws in another's performance to avoid embarrassment for everyone involved   Studied Nonobservance  
🗑
The area where a player performs a specific role before an audience   Front Stage  
🗑
Shapes the appropriate emotions for a given role or specific situation   Feeling Rules  
🗑
Occurs only in jobs that require personal contact with the public or the production of a state of mine (such as hope, desire, or fear) in others   Emotional Labor  
🗑
The transfer of information between persons without the use of words   Nonverbal Communication  
🗑
How we behave or conduct ourselves   Demeanor  
🗑
the symbolic means by which subordinates give a required permissive response to those in power; it confirms the existence of inequality and reaffirms each person's relationship to the other   Deference  
🗑
The immediate area surrounding a person that the person claims as private   Personal Space  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: Vanity
Popular Anthropology sets