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| A position someone occupies in a social group. |
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| What is an ascribed status? |
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| A position someone acquires at birth or receives involuntary later in life. |
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| What is an achieved status? |
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| Positions that are earned, accomplished, or involve at least some effort from the individual. |
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| A status that cuts across the other statues that the individual occupies. |
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| What do people pleased with their social status what to do? What do they use? |
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| When people are pleased with their social status, people want to use status symbols to show their prestige or position to identify a status. |
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| the behaviors, obligations, and privileges associated with an given status. |
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| What is a social institution? |
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| the organized, usual or standard way by which society meets its basic needs. |
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| a type of society in which life is intimate; a community in which everyone knows everyone else and people share a sense of togetherness |
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| a type of society that hinges upon impersonal relationships, individual accomplishments, and self-interests. |
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| conflicts that someone feels between roles because the expectations are at odds with one another. |
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| conflict that one feels within a role. |
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| Is impression management important? Why? |
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| Yes impression management is very important. To be promoted within a company, one must be perceived that should be promoted. Also one must be dominant. |
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| What is ethnomethodology? |
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| the study of how people use background assumptions to make sense out of life. |
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| "If people define situations as real, then the consequences are real." |
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| What is the largest and most complex group that sociologists study? |
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| people who share a culture and a territory. |
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| Which of the societies had the most equality? |
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| Hunting and Gathering Societies. |
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| What change from the hunting and gathering to more complex and advanced were not good (the term)? |
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| this lead to social inequality. Since some families acquired more goods than other families, that meant feuds and wars. |
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| The changes in the Postindustrial or information society was so great what did it lead to? |
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| A fourth social revolution. |
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| individuals who temporarily share the same physical space but who do not see themselves as belonging together. |
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| people, objects and events that have similar characteristics that are grouped together. |
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| What is the difference between an aggregate and category? |
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| the main difference is the fact that a aggreate share the same physical space but do not share similar characteristics, but a category have similar characteristics but do not have to share the same space, also a category is a statistic |
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| What is a reference group? |
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| a group whose standards we refer to as we evaluate ourselves. |
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| the smallest but most intimate social group, consisting of two people. |
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| a social group consisting of 3 people. |
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| What is the idea that was taking away from the controversial milgram experiment? |
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| That intelligent adults will follow order s from a perceived higher power even if the orders are wrong. |
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| What is a traditional society? |
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| a society in which the past is supposed to be the best guide for the present. Feudal, peasant, and tribal societies. |
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| What is a formal organization? |
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| a secondary group designed to achieve explicit objectives. |
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| What is the McDonaldization of society? |
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| the process by which ordinary aspects of life are rationalized and efficiency comes to rule them, including such as food preparation. |
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| What is the Peter principle? |
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| That a person is promoted based off of his or her level of competence. A person is promoted until they reach an certain level of promotion. |
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| What is voluntary associations? |
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| groups made up of volunteers who organize based off of mutual interest. |
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| What is the iron law of oligarchy? |
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| the tendency that formal organizations are organized by an small, self-perpetuating elite. |
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