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Exam 2
Sociology Chapter 5
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Sociology
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10/16/2006

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ascribed status
Definition
born into, doesnt change
EX. race gender
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achieved status
Definition
those obtained by individual effort
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master status
Definition
draws everyone's attention
EX. disabled
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status inconsistency
Definition
when a person occupies two or more statueses with inconsistent rank
EX. college student with kids
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role performance
Definition
actual behavior, behavior might not always match expectation
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role overload
Definition
very demanding and difficult
one or more roles will suffer
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role strain
Definition
when a single status asks incompatible role behavior
EX. ask someone to end your life
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role conflict
Definition
EX. work and finals at same time
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social group
Definition
chare common interests, goals. must interact
experience sense of identity
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social category
Definition
shared characteristic but not identity
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aggregate
Definition
group that wont interract afterwards
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primary groups
Definition
small number
EX. family, sense of belonging and have emotional ties
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secondary ties
Definition
EX. our class, formal and impersonal
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In-group
Definition
feel good about belonging to
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Out-group
Definition
has negative feelings towards, doesnt belong
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reference groups
Definition
provides standards to judge
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dyad-group size
Definition
least stable
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conformity
Definition
-Asch-group pressures
-Milgram- shock
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Groupthink
Definition
discenting opinion is ignored, EX. Colin Powell
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formal organizations
Definition
achieve specific goals
1. normative- voluntary
2. coercive- prison or military
3. utilitarian- EX. school bank study groups
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Weber's 6 characteristics of beuaracracy
Definition
1. hierarchial authority structure
2. division of labor and specialization
3. rules
4. expertise competence
5. impersonal
6. formal communications
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3 Bureaucratic dysfunctions
Definition
alienation
incompetence
structured inequality
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5 social institutions
Definition
family, education, gov't, economy, religion
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def. of social institution
Definition
stable clusters of norms values roles and groups
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