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Stress Quiz 8
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/11/2009

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Ascribed Status
Definition
a status that is occupied from the moment of birth
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Social exchange Model
Definition
social interaction holds that our interactions are determined by the reward and punishments that we receive from others
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Collective Consciousness
Definition
Emile Durkheim, gives groups social solidarity
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Functionalist theorist
Definition
contend that social institutions assure the stability and continuance of society
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Social Interaction
Definition
Meaningful behavior between the two or more people
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Ethnomethodology
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the technique of studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy
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Group
Definition
-Interact and communicate with each other
-Share goals and norms
-possess a subjective awareness of themeselves as "we"
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"second shift"
Definition
Hochschild's research on the conflict between family roles and work roles resulted in her coining the term
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Types of societies
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Urban Crime
Definition
macranalysis of social interaction would most likely study
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Nonverbal communication
Definition
Tactile communication
-Kinesic communication
-Paralinguistic communication
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Status inconsistency
Definition
Where the statuses occupied by a person brings with them significantly different amounts of prestige the condition that exists
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Symbolic interaction theory
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Social construction of reality is a principle that is central to
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Emile Durkheim
Definition
classical theorist who descrived society as "sui generis"
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Communal solidarity
Definition
NOT a type of social solidarity identified by Durkheim
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Foraging Societies
Definition
Pygmies of Central Africa
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Proxemic Bubble
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Anthropologist E.T Hall contends that we carry around us a/an _____that represents our personal three dimensinal space
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Gemeinschaft
Definition
a moderate division of labor
strong personal ties
strong family relationships
a sense of personal loyalty
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Master Status
Definition
-A hero
-Being disabled
-Being an African American
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Division of labor
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durkheim believed that any analysis of society needed to include a recognition of the sifnificance
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importance of attractiveness in human interaction
Definition
Standards of attractiveness vary between culture and between subcultures in the same society
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NOT a tactile of communication
Definition
using facial expressions to convey feeling
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