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Cards Term social structure Definition refers to the ways in which the components of a group or society relate to each other. Term status Definition socially defined position in a group or society... ex: female, black, etc. Term acheived status Definition status that is obtained over the course of one's life as a result of individual effort. ex: occupational positions Term ascribed status Definition social position to which an individual is assigned and that usually connot be changed ex: race, age Term master status Definition a crucial status that determines a person's general social position Term role Definition the behavior expected of someone with a given status is a group or society. Term role set Definition whole set of roles associated with a single status Term role expectation Definition society's definition of the way a role ought to be played Term role performance Definition way a person actually plays a role Term role conflict Definition when opposing demands are made on an individual by two or more roles linked with two or more entirely seperate social statusus Term role strain Definition opposing demands built into a single role, and personal stress caused by that situation Term group Definition two or more people who have a common identity and some feelings of unity, who interact, and who share certian goals and expectations. Term social system Definition share certian basic structural properties with all kinds of systems Term social category Definition 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 Term aggregate Definition 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 Term social institution Definition its a relatively stable cluster of social structures that is intended to meet the basic needs of societies Term community Definition cluster of people is focused on individual homes and places of work, based on daily patterns of interaction Term society Definition comprehensive, territorially based social grouping that includes all the social instititions requiredto meet basic human needs Term world system Definition system of economic, political, and cultured relationships that links all the societies of the world Term dysfunctional Definition a unit of structure is dysfunctional when it prevents society or one of its pars, from meeting its needs Term manifest functions Definition recognized units of social structure Term latent functions Definition unrecognized, unintended units of social structure