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29 Cards in this Set
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Social organization
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ways in which human conduct becomes socially organized
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Social structure
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structrue of behavior in groups and society
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aggregate
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collection of individuals who happen to be at the same place at the same time
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group
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collection of ppl who bc of sustained interaction, have evolved a common structure of culture
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social interaction
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when individuals act or respond to one another
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social relationships
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case of enduring social interaction
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norms
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expectations that emerge about how people should act
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values
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criteria for judging what is appropriate, correct, moral, and important
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social roles
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expectaions that group memebers have of individuals occupying the various positions within the group
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folkways
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relativly unimportant rules that if violated are not severly punished
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mores
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important norms, the violation of which results in severe punishment
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status
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a position in an organization
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heirarchy
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arrangemenet of ppl in order of importance
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master status
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status that has exceptional significance for social identity
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role
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behavioral expectations and requirements attahced to a position in a social organization
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sanctions
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social rewards or punishments for approved or disapproved behavior
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social group
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organization created through enduring and patterened interaction
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primary groups
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groups whose members are the most intimatley invlolved with each other
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secondary groups
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much larger and more impersonal than primary groups
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burreaucracy
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hierarchial formal organization characterized by rtionality and efficiency
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McDonalidization
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increasing bureaucratization in social life.
by George Ritzer "process by which the principles of the fast food resturant are coming to dominate more and more sectros of American society as well as the rest of the world" |
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"iron cage" of rationality
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bureaucracies can be dehuminazing
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Egoistic Suicide
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when an invidual has minimal ties to a social group
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Altrustic suicide
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the sacrificing of ones life for the good of the group
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anomic suicide
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from durkheims. at the indivudual level, the person is not sure of what the norms are, which leads to the relativly high probablitly of suicide
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Society
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largest social organization to which people owe their allegiance
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Social system
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a society composed of interdependent parts that are linked together into a boundary maintaining whole
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social stratifaction
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structural components of societies, the heirarchiacal arrangemenet of ppl in terms of power, prestige, and resources.
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Insitutions
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social arrangements that channel behavior in prescribed ways in the important areas of social life
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