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Define: role ambiguity |
A lack of clarity from a job or position
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Define: role conflict |
Role conflict can be something that can be for either a short period of time, or a long period of time, and it can also be connected to situational experiences. Intra-role conflict occurs when the demands are within a single domain of life, such as on the job.
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Define: status set |
A status set is a collection of social statuses that an individual holds. A person may have status of a daughter, wife, mother, student, worker, church member and a citizen.
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Define: role strain |
the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
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Define: ethnomethodology |
Ethnomethodology is a perspective within sociology which focuses on the way people make sense of their everyday world. People are seen as rational actors, but employ practical reasoning rather than formal logic to make sense of and function in society.
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Define: Stigma |
A negative stereotype |
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Define: social interaction |
A social interaction is an exchange between two or more individuals and is a building block of society.
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Define: dramatugical Analysis |
Dramaturgical analysis is the idea that people's day-to-day lives can be understood as resembling performers in action on a theater stage. Learn more about dramaturgical analysis and test your knowledge with a quiz.
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Social construct of reality |
The central concept of Social Construction of Reality is that persons and groups interacting in a social system create, over time, concepts or mental representations of each other's actions, and that these concepts eventually become habituated into reciprocal roles played by the actors in relation to each other.
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Sociology of Emotions |
The sociology of emotion applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions.
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Define:social groups |
A social group within social sciences has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity. Other theorists disagree however, and are wary of definitions which stress the importance of interdependence or objective similarity.
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Define: social marginality |
The term social marginality refers to a state of being excluded from the social fabric and being treated as an outsider. Different segments of our society experience this phenomenon to varying degrees at any given moment.
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Define: Informal Structures |
The informal organization is the interlocking social structure that governs how people work together in practice.
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Define: bureaucracy |
a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
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Define: social network |
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
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Define: mcdonaldization |
McDonaldization is a term used by sociologist George Ritzer in his book The McDonaldization of Society (1993). He explains that it becomes manifested when a culture adopts the characteristics of a fast-food restaurant.
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Solomon Asch Expirment |
A study about conforming to groups |
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Define: aggregate |
A whole formed by combining several elements |
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Milgrim Expirment |
The study of personal conscience vs obedience to athority |
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Define: out group |
People who don't belong to a specific in group |
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3 principals of Bureacracy |
This is a system of organization and control that is based on three principles: hierarchical authority, job specialization, and formalized rules.These features are the reason bureaucracy, as a form of organization, is the most efficient means of getting people to work together on tasks of large magnitude.
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4 parts of mcdonaldization: |
Efficiency Calculabibilty Predictability Control |
