Sociology Exam 1

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Achieved Status

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Social position acquired through our own efforts or accomplishments or taken on voluntarily.

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Ascribed Status

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Social position acquired at birth or taken on involuntarily later in life.

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Coalition

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Subgroup of a triad, formed when two members unite against the third member.

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Conflict Perspective

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Theoretical perspective that views the structure of society as a source of inequality, that always benefits some groups at the expense of other groups.

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Culture

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Language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a society.

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Dyad

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Group consisting of two people

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Feminist Perspective

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Theoretical perspective that focuses on gender as the most important source of conflict and inequality in social life.

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Globalization

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Process through which people's lives all around the world become economically, politically, environmentally, and culturally interconnected.

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Group

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Set of people who interact more or less regularly and who are conscious of their identity as a unit.

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Latent Function

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Unintended unrecognized consequences of activities that help some part of the social system.

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Macro-level

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Way of examining human life that focuses on the broad social forces and structural features of society that exist above the level of individual people.

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Manifest function

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Intended, obvious consequences of activities designed to help some part of the social system.

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Micro-level

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Ways of examining human life that focuses on the immediate, everyday experiences of individuals.

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Norm

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Culturally defined standard or rule of conduct.

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Organization

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Large, complex network of positions, created for a specific purpose and characterized by a hierarchical division of labor.

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Primary group

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Collection of individuals who are together over a relatively long period, whose members have direct contact with and feel emotional attachment to one another.

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Role

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Set of expectations rights, obligations, behaviors, duties associated with a particular status.

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Role Conflict

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Frustration people feel when the demands of one role they are expected to fulfill clash with the demands of another role.

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Secondary group

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Relatively impersonal collection of individuals that is established to perform a specific task.

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Social Institution

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Stable set of roles, statuses, groups, and organizations such as the institution of education,family, politics, religion, health care of the economy that provides a foundation for behavior in some major area of social life.

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Status

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Any named social position that people can occupy.

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Structural-functionalist perspective

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Theoretical perspective that posits that social institutions are structured to maintain stability and order in society.

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Symbol

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Something used to represent or stand up for something else.

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Symbolic interventionism

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Theoretical perspective that explains society and social structure through an examination of the micro-level personal, day-to-day exchanges of people as individuals, pairs, or groups.

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Triad

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Group consisting of three people.

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Value

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Standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcomes.