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| Symbolic Interaction Approach |
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a framework for building theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individiuals.
• Society is nothing more than a reality that they construct for themselves.
• Humans live in a world of symbols and attach meaning to everything.
• Reality is simply how we define our surroundings. |
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| Social Construction of Reality |
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| the use of background assumptions and life experiences to define what is real |
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| behavior expected of somebody who holds a particular status |
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| Crime committed by people in high social position in the course of their occupations |
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Achieved status: a social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal responsibility/effort
ascribed: a social postion that is recieved at birth or given unvolutarily later in life |
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| The tendency for someone's expectations about another to cause that person to behave in a manner consistent with those expectations. |
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| Judging one culture by the standards of ones own culture |
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| the advocacy of social equality for women and men in opposition to patriarchy and sexism |
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| A model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between nations. |
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| Tracking (also called streaming) is separating pupils by academic ability into groups for all subjects within a school |
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| framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. |
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| a framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change. |
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| Sex is biological distinction, while gender is personal or social positions that society places as distinction between males and females |
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| Status is a social postition that a person holds, and prestige is honor/respect given with any status |
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| Each social role is a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms and behaviour a person has to face and to fulfill. The model is based on the observation that people behave in a predictable way, and that an individual’s behavior is context specific, based on social position and other factors. The theatre is a metaphor often used to describe role theory. |
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| Each social role is a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms and behaviour a person has to face and to fulfill. The model is based on the observation that people behave in a predictable way, and that an individual’s behavior is context specific, based on social position and other factors. The theatre is a metaphor often used to describe role theory. |
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| Discrimination vs. Prejudice |
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| Prejudice is an unfair categorization about an entire category of people (emotion), while discrimination is unequal treatment of various categories of people (action) |
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| Credentialism is a term used to describe a primary reliance on credentials for purposes of conferring jobs or social status |
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| a ceremony that reflects cultural behavior |
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| an economic system in which natural resouces and means of producing goods and services are collectively owned |
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| an economic system in which natural resouces and means of producing goods and services are privately owned |
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Sacred: set apart as extraordinary, inspiring awe and reverence
profane: occurs as a ordinary element of everyday life |
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| social patterns of post industrial societies. |
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• there isn’t anyone that is deviant, its only people that are labeled that way and treated as such.
o Label becomes real through selective perception and self-fulfilling prophecy |
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| the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and develop culture. |
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| the change in position within the social hierarchy |
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| the theory that social change swings back and forth, and that over time certain overall patterms will remain the same. |
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| a model of economic and social inequality as the exploitation of rich nations by poor nations. ex. the colonization of south africa |
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| the study of how health and disease are distrubted thoughout a society's population |
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| study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance. |
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| a productive system based on service work and high technology. |
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