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20 Cards in this Set
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Social Structure
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relatively stable patterns of social interaction that characterize human social life.
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Status
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a social position that an individual holds
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status symbol
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something that identifies the status one occupies and suggests how others should interact with them
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Role
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norms associated with a particular status
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Role vs. Status
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we occupy a status but we play or enact a role
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Role conflict
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expectations for the roles connected with one status clash with thos
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instrumental leader
task leader |
primarily concerned with making the decisions that will help the group achieve it's goals
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expressive leader
socioemotional |
concentrates on keeping the morale high
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Asch
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experiment found 1/3 of subjects went along with wrong answer in order to conform
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Pastoral Society
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environmentally mandated alternative to horticulture rather than an advancement over it
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed here |
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Agarian Society
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use animal power to produce levels of surplus food
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Socialization
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lifelong process where we learn our culture, develop our sense of self, and become functioning members of society
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Gender Socialization
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process by which individuals learn the cultural behavior of feminimity or masculinity
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Social identity
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part of the self that is built up over time through participation in social life
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looking glass self
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Cooley- "use other people as a mirror to ourselves"
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Schema
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cognitive structures used to understand the world and process new information
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Agents of sociolization
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people, groups, social institutions that provide the critical information needed for children to become the fully functioning members of society.
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Social interaction
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the way in which people behave toward and respond to one another in a reciprocal manner.
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Ethnomethodology
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the study of how people socially construct their everyday world and give meaning to their expectations and interactions
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self-fulfilling prophecy
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your expectations about others lead them to behave in ways they confirm the expectations
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