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| the broadest features of society. Conflict theorists and functionalists use this approach to analyze social structure. |
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| focus is on social interaction, what people do when they come together. |
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| refers to the typical patterns of a group such as its usual relationships between men and women or students and teachers. |
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| social structure is important because: |
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| income, education, occupational prestige. |
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| social position. high or low prestige. |
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| all the statuses or positions that a person can occupy. a job, a marriage, a home, children. |
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| involuntary. consists of the statuses inherited. |
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| voluntary. these are accomplished, such as becoming a lawyer. |
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| signs that identify social status. wedding rings, uniforms, guns and badges etc., |
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| cuts across your other statuses. Are mostly ascribed (inherited) but can be achieved (extreme wealth) |
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| contradictions in statuses. ex: 14 year old college student. |
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| behaviors, obligations and privileges attached to a status. |
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| consists of people who regularly interact with each other. ordinarily, the members of a group share similar values. |
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| the ways that each society develops to meet its basic needs. ex: family, religion, education, economics, medicine, politics, law, science, military, mass media. |
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| pastoral (or herding) societies |
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| based on pasturing of animals. developed in regions where low rainfall made it impractical to build life around growing crops. |
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| hunting and gathering societies |
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| have few social divisions and little inequity. |
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| massive horticultural agriculture |
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| altering of genetic structures |
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| social integration (Durkheim) |
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| the degree to which people are united by shared values |
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| mechanical solidarity (Durkheim) |
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| people who perform similar tasks develop a shared consciousness. unity depends upon similar thinking. |
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| the larger a society becomes, the more specialized division of labor becomes. |
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| organic solidarity (Durkheim) |
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| when the division of labor causes people to depend upon each other for the well-being of the whole group. |
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| an aspect of microsociology. life is like a play. |
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| impression management (Goffman) |
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| the effort to manage the impressions that others receive of us. |
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| role=lays out basic outline for performance or expectations |
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| one status conflicts with another status. |
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| conflict within a role itself |
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| the study of how people use commonsense understandings to make sense of life. Ethnomethodologists study background assumptions. |
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| your ideas about the way life is the way things ought to work. |
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| definition of the situation. a symbolic interaction-ist viewpoint in which if we perceive a situation as real, it's consequence is also real. |
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| Hall's 4 types of social distances |
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| intimate, personal, social and public. going from closest to furthest away. |
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| social construction of reality |
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| through this lens we learn ways of looking at life--through our interaction with others we construct reality. |
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| conflict theory and structural functionalism both are perspectives of ____________ sociology. |
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| symbolic interactionism is a perspective of ___________ sociology. |
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