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39 Cards in this Set
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social position a person holds (held)
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status
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social position taken on involuntarily (daughter, sister)
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ascribed
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social position taken on voluntarily reflects personal ability & effort (athlete, thief)
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achieved
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special importance for social identity shapes a persons life
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Master
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jobs: reveal income, education, social bacground.
Gender & Positive: lawyer Negative: cancer patient |
Master
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Behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status (performed)
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Role
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conflict of roles among 2 status (mother with a full time job)
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Conflict
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tension among roles connected to a single status
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Strain
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how an individual understands their specific circumstances (doctor visit)
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Definition of the Situation
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process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction
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Social Construction of Reality
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actual definition
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Denotation
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emotionally infused meaning
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Connotation
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situations defined as real are real in their consequences
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Thomas Theorem
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Study of the way people make sense of everyday surroundings ("how are you") (Garfinkle)
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Ethnomethodology
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context free, true regardless of circumstances
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Mindlessness
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verbal & nonverbal comm., performances, gender, idealization, embarrassment/tact
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Elements of self presentation
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people are like actors on stage
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Goffman
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authentic, ideal, tact (helping someone cover embarrassment)
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3 forms of self presentation
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biological distinction between males & females
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sex
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culturally derived & socially learned traits that differentiate males & females
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gender
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hermaphrodite; born w/ male and female genitalia
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intersexed
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fells they are one sex biologically born w/ others
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transsexual
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identity does not conform to conventional gender but combines/ moves between
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transgender
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distributed along a continuum (kinsey)(like height and weight)
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Sexual Orientation Continuum
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teen pregnancy, porn, prostitution, sexual violence rape & date rape
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sexual controversies
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biologically able, not emotionally, U.S highest affects youth of all race and ethics, higher in 1950's
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teen pregnancy
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selling of sexual services, illegal except rural Nevada
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Prostitution
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depends on who you ask..when..& where. recognized violation of cultural norms
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defining deviance
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(1965) 252 different kinds (asked people what groups are deviant)
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Simmons
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phrenology (gall 1796) discarded but brain studies organs?
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Early research
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1835-1909 inspired by evolution/genetic studies, physical evidence of an atavistic/hereditary sort., abnormal forms of skull, jaw, face, other body parts, proven non existent
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Lombroso
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deviance is necessary element of social organization
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Functionalist
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how do we define deviance?
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Symbolic Interactionist
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powerfully negative label that greatly changes a persons self concept and social identity
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stigma
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transformation of moral & legal deviance into a medical condition
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Medicalization
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the ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others
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power
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capitalist justice is by the capitalist class & against the working class
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Quinney
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crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupation
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white collar
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hate, white collar, corporate, against person, against property
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types of crime
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