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What is society? |
A system of social interaction that includes both cultural and social organization. |
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Macroanalysis |
Used when examining large, complex, and highly differentiated patterns of social interaction |
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Microanalysis |
The study of smaller, less complex, and less differentiated interactions |
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Social Institution |
An established and organized system of social behavior with a recognized purpose |
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What hold society together? |
Mechanical solidarity, Organic solidarity, The division of labor |
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Functions of social Institution |
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9 Major Institutions |
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Mechanical solidarity |
Members play similar roles within the society, shares the same values, and holds the same things sacred |
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Organic solidarity |
People have many different roles and roles are highly differentiated |
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Division of labor |
The relatedness of different tests that develop within society |
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Forms of solidarity |
Gemeinschaft Gesellschaft |
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Gemeinschaft |
Communities have we feelings, strong family relationships, and simple social institutions |
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Gesellschaft |
Societies with fewer personal ties. These societies have an elaborate division of labor |
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Types of societies |
Preindustrial societies, industrial societies, post industrial societies |
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Pre-industrial societies |
Foraging societies, pastoral societies, horticultural societies, and agricultural societies |
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Industrial societies |
Uses machines and other advanced technologies to produce and distribute goods and services |
relies on highly differentiated labor and intensive use of capital technology have large formal organizations, such as bureaucracies, which holds society together These bureaucracies take care of the economy, work, the government and politics |
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Post industrial societies |
Depending on production / distribution of services, information, and knowledge |
Information-based, and take place key roles and social organization The u.s. is fast becoming a post-industrial society |
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Forms of Social interaction in society |
Groups Status Roles Everyday social interaction Interpersonal attraction |
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Groups |
a collection of individuals who interact and communicate with each other, share goals and norms, and have a subjective awareness of themselves as a distinct social unit |
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Ascribed status |
Given at birth |
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Achieved status |
The result of individual effort |
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Master status |
The person's dominant status |
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Status |
An established position in a social structure that carries a degree of social rank or value |
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Role |
Expected behavior associated with a particular status |
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Role modeling |
Imitating or copying the way someone else in that role behaves |
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Endomethodology |
Studying norms by violating them to reveal people standards |
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Social construction of reality |
Our perception of what is real is determined by the subjective meaning we assigned to an experience |
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Impression management |
How one watches and manipulates another's behavior and adjust his / her own to the others expectations |
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Dramaturgical approach |
The way to think about social interaction as a performance in the stage play |
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Social exchange model |
Our interactions are determined by the rewards and punishments for you receive from others |
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Game theory |
a mathematic and economic theory that predicts that human interaction has the characteristics of a game |
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Cyberspace interaction |
Communication via personal computers |
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