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| refers to the ways in which the components of a group or society relate to each other. |
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| socially defined position in a group or society... ex: female, black, etc. |
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| status that is obtained over the course of one's life as a result of individual effort. ex: occupational positions |
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| social position to which an individual is assigned and that usually connot be changed ex: race, age |
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| a crucial status that determines a person's general social position |
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| the behavior expected of someone with a given status is a group or society. |
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| whole set of roles associated with a single status |
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| society's definition of the way a role ought to be played |
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| way a person actually plays a role |
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| when opposing demands are made on an individual by two or more roles linked with two or more entirely seperate social statusus |
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| opposing demands built into a single role, and personal stress caused by that situation |
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| two or more people who have a common identity and some feelings of unity, who interact, and who share certian goals and expectations. |
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| share certian basic structural properties with all kinds of systems |
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| members of social categories do not mecessarily interact, know one another , share s social structure, or have anything in common other than the trait they share. ex: liberals/conservatives |
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| a numer of people who find themselves face to face in a perticular setting but dont interact and lack more than a minimal social structure. ex: people riding in a bus |
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| its a relatively stable cluster of social structures that is intended to meet the basic needs of societies |
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| cluster of people is focused on individual homes and places of work, based on daily patterns of interaction |
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| comprehensive, territorially based social grouping that includes all the social instititions requiredto meet basic human needs |
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| system of economic, political, and cultured relationships that links all the societies of the world |
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| a unit of structure is dysfunctional when it prevents society or one of its pars, from meeting its needs |
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| recognized units of social structure |
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| unrecognized, unintended units of social structure |
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