Soc 100 Test 2

Front 1

Social Structure

Back 1

relatively stable patterns of social interaction that characterize human social life.

Front 2

Status

Back 2

a social position that an individual holds

Front 3

status symbol

Back 3

something that identifies the status one occupies and suggests how others should interact with them

Front 4

Role

Back 4

norms associated with a particular status

Front 5

Role vs. Status

Back 5

we occupy a status but we play or enact a role

Front 6

Role conflict

Back 6

expectations for the roles connected with one status clash with thos

Front 7

instrumental leader
task leader

Back 7

primarily concerned with making the decisions that will help the group achieve it's goals

Front 8

expressive leader
socioemotional

Back 8

concentrates on keeping the morale high

Front 9

Asch

Back 9

experiment found 1/3 of subjects went along with wrong answer in order to conform

Front 10

Pastoral Society

Back 10

environmentally mandated alternative to horticulture rather than an advancement over it

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed here

Front 11

Agarian Society

Back 11

use animal power to produce levels of surplus food

Front 12

Socialization

Back 12

lifelong process where we learn our culture, develop our sense of self, and become functioning members of society

Front 13

Gender Socialization

Back 13

process by which individuals learn the cultural behavior of feminimity or masculinity

Front 14

Social identity

Back 14

part of the self that is built up over time through participation in social life

Front 15

looking glass self

Back 15

Cooley- "use other people as a mirror to ourselves"

Front 16

Schema

Back 16

cognitive structures used to understand the world and process new information

Front 17

Agents of sociolization

Back 17

people, groups, social institutions that provide the critical information needed for children to become the fully functioning members of society.

Front 18

Social interaction

Back 18

the way in which people behave toward and respond to one another in a reciprocal manner.

Front 19

Ethnomethodology

Back 19

the study of how people socially construct their everyday world and give meaning to their expectations and interactions

Front 20

self-fulfilling prophecy

Back 20

your expectations about others lead them to behave in ways they confirm the expectations