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30 Cards in this Set
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Happiness (Durkheim) |
happiness is a simple relationship on needs and means -external make out passions possible
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Suicide |
Integration + altruistic - Egoistic Regulation + fatalistic - anomic |
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Group |
group of people motivated by common goals, divisions of labor, status relationships, accepted norms/values and sanctions |
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Social Groups |
Primary: most integrated, intrinsic values, anchor point in society Secondary: more formal and goal oriented |
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Milgram |
Authority study -authority is all it takes |
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Asch |
Conformity
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Darley and Latane |
Responsibility -less likely to help is blame can be diffused |
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Status |
social position in society -ascribed and achieved Master |
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Roles |
behaviors that we enact many within a status
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Role Strain |
Demands from a single status are in conflict |
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Role Conflict |
conflict between the roles of two or more social statuses...choose the master status |
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Collective Behavior |
spontaneous, unstructured and disorganized behaviors that may violate norms -new norms can emerge |
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Emergent Norm Theory |
Context dependent, people act differently in a group |
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Streaking |
Fad that depends on -Prestige -media coverage and sanctions -complexity -culturally heterogeneous |
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Crowd behaviors |
Forms of collective behavior in which a crowd acts as a unified group -group feels loosens the binding of social controls |
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Mass behaviors |
individual people communicate or responsd in a similar manner: rumors. fads, fashion -lack leadership, division of labor, and sense of group action |
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Causes of Collective behavior |
-Structural Conduciveness: existing problems create climate that is ripe for change -Structural Strain: Social structure doesnt meet the needs of its people -Spread of a generalized belief -precipitating factor -mobilization for action- leaders emerge -social controls are weak: military/police |
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Networks |
Bridge the micro/macro gap -focus on social relationships |
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Strength of weak ties |
network bridge is a weak tie, can provide you with unique opportunities,
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Forbidden Triad |
-opportunity -Homophily: likely similar -structural balance: natural pressure |
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Chain of affections |
Peter Bearman gathered socio-centric data about sexual relationships -core periphery -random -dense communitites with bridges
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Spanning Tree |
-no cycles of four, doesnt loop back on itself -dyads and triads |
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Rationalization of Social Life |
Maximize efficiency by creating rules and procedures focused soley on accomplishing goals
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Ideal type |
-Used to measure the social world. Not an average or stereotype or value of judgements. Based on an Idea |
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Bureaucracies |
specific large, formal organziations that maximize efficiency |
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Weber's Bureaucracy |
-Fixed jurisdiction -Division of labor -hierarchical chain of command -management based on written rules -Expert training and merit based recruit. -Merit->promotion-> career. Monetary salary |
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Why are Bureaucracies important? |
large populations need organization make monetary income perceived as far accomplish goals quickly |
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Dysfunctions of Bureaucracies |
hard to get rid of "experts" Lead to inequality People are alienated |
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Iron Law of Oligarchy |
Organization needs a buro as it grows... top dogs try to increase their power |
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Parkinson's Law |
Work extends to fill all available time |
