Soc 100 - Test 2

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Social Interaction

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Process by which people act toward or respond to other people and is the foundation for all relationships and groups in society

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Social Structure

Back 2

The complex framework of social institutions and social practices that make up society and organized and establish limits on people’s behavior

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Social Marginality

Back 3

State of being part insider and part outsider

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Stigma

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Physical or social attribute or sign that devalues a person’s social identity to the point that it disqualifies them from full social acceptance

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Status

Back 5

Socially defined position in a group or society characterized by certain expectations, rights, and duties.

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Status Set

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All of the statuses a person occupies that dominates other statuses and is a main factor in a person’s social position

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Ascribed Status

Back 7

Received involuntarily

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Achieved Status

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Social position that a person assumes voluntarily as a result of personal choice, merit, or direct effort

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Status Symbols

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Material signs that inform others of a person’s specific status

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Role

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Set of behavioural expectations associated with a status

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Role Expectation

Back 11

Group or society’- definition of the way a specific role should be played

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Role Performance

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How a person actually plays their role

Front 13

Role Conflict

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Occurs when incompatible role demands are placed on a person by two or more statuses held at the same time

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Role Distancing

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When people consciously foster the impression of lack of commitment/attachment to a role

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Role Exit

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When people disengage from roles that have been central to their identity

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Group

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Two or more people who interact frequently and share common identity

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Primary Group

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Small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotion based interactions.

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Secondary Group

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Larger more specialized group in which members engage in more impersonal, goal-oriented interactions

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Formal Organization

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Particular type of large-scale secondary group that is highly structured and formed for the purpose of completing tasks

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Social Institutions

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The means by which society’- basic needs are met: a set of organized beliefs or rules that establish how a society will attempt to meet basic needs

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Subsistence Technology

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The methods and tools available for acquiring the basic needs of daily life

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Pastoral

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Based on technology that supports the domestication of large animals for food

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Horticultural

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Based on technology that supports the cultivation of plants for food

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Agrarian Society

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Causes high inequality and a gender divide

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Industrial Society

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Causes Invention, urbanization, and increases standard of living

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Post Industrial Society

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Technology supports a service, knowledge is a commodity.

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Typology

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A classification with two or more mutually exclusive categories used to compare different types of behaviour or societies

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Ethnomethodology

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Study of common sense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves

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Personal Space

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Immediate area surrounding a person that is claimed as private

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Aggregate

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Collection of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time

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Category

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Number of people who may have never met but share a similar characteristic

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In Group

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Group to which a person belongs

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Out Group

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Group to which a person does not belong

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Consciousness of Kind

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Awareness that individuals have when they believe they share important commonalities with certain other people

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Closed Relationship

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Setting in which “Participation of certain persons is excluded, limited, or subject to conditions”

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Reference Group

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Group that strongly influences a person’s behaviour and attitudes, regardless of whether that person is a member

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Bureaucracies

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Organizations characterized by division of labor, hierarchy of authority, explicit rules and procedures, and impersonality in personnel matters

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Deviance

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Any behaviour, belief, or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group where it occurs

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Crime

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Behavior that violates criminal law and is punishable by fines, jail terms, and other sanctions

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Social Control

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Systematic practices that social groups develop to encourage conformity to norms, rules, and laws, and to discourage deviance

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Strain Theory

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People feel strain when exposed to cultural goal that they can’t obtain because they don't have access to the culturally approved means of achievement