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Quiz 2
Chapt 5,6,8,10
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
10/05/2011

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Achieved Status-5
Definition
Attained by virtue EX: Police man
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Ascribed Status-5
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Occupied from the moment person is born EX: your sex... GENDER is not ascribed, it is a social construct
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Collective Consciousness-5
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Beliefs common to a community that give people a sense of belonging and a feeling of moral obligation to its demands and values. Durkheim-gives groups social solidarity b/c members feel they are part of one society
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Division of Labor-5
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Age, gender, race, class. Different tasks that develop in complex societies
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Ethnomethodology-5
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"people" "mode of study"; studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing attempt to restore normalcy
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Game Theory-5
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human interaction has the characteristics of a "game", strategies, winners and losers, rewards and punishments
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Gemeinschaft-5
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"Community"; personalities tie, strong family relationships. EX: small community church
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Gesellschaft-5
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"Society"; less intimate, increased importance of secondary relationships with people
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Impression Management-5
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Social Interaction-5
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behavior between 2 or more people given meaning. how people relate and form social bond.
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Society-5
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Social interactions, include culture and social organization
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Macroanalysis-5
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sociological approach that takes the broadest view of society by studying large patterns of social interaction that are vast, complex, and highly differentiated
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Microanalysis-5
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Focus on the smallest visible parts of social life. EX: specific people interacting with each other
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Social Organization-5
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Order established in social groups. Bring regularity and predictability to human behavior
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Social Institution-5
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Established system of social behavior with a recognized purpose
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Social Structure-5
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Organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose society
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Mechanical Solidarity-5
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Members of society who hold the same values
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Organic Solidarity-5
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People play variety of roles, unity is based on different roles instead of similarity
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Preindustrial society-5
Definition
directly uses, modifies and/or tills the land as a major means of survival
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Postindustrial Society-5
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Information based society
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Group-5
Definition
1-interact.communicate 2-share goals and norms 3- subjective awareness of themselves as "we"
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Status-5
Status Set-5
Definition
Rank in society
Set of status' occupied by a person at a given time
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Master Status-5
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Overrides features of a persons identity EX: being in a wheelchair, people only see that
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Role Modeling-5
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Imitate the behavior of another we admire who is in a particular role EX: wanting to be a skater cause your neighbor is a skater
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Role Set-5
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All the roles one occupies at a given time
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Role Conflict-5
Role Strain-5
Definition
2 or more roles are associated with contradictory expectations EX: Parent and a worker

Single role brings conflicting expectations
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Tactile Communication-5
Definition
Patterns of touch EX: boys touched more roughly, girls more gently
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Dyad-6
Definition
group consisting of exactly 2 people
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Triad-6
Definition
consists of 3 people
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Georg Simmel-6
Definition
Interested in discovering the effects of size on groups
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Instrumental needs-6
Definition
Served by secondary groups. EX: Athletic teams for to have fun and win games
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Attribution Theory-6
Definition
We all make inferences about the personalities of others
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Attribution Error-6
Definition
errors made in attributing causes for people's behavior to their membership in a group EX: Racial groups, men vs women
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Normative Organization-6
Definition
Goals that are worthwhile EX: Charitable organizations, PTA
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Coercive Organizations-6
Definition
Prisons, mental hospitals. Forced to join
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Utilitarian Organizations-6
Definition
Joined for the purpose of monetary rewards. EX: For-Profit, Microsoft. Non-Profit, Colleges, churches (get a salary but don't have product)
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McDonaldization-6
Definition
efficiency, calculability, and control in industries
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*Types of Groups-6
Definition
Primary groups- building blocks of social interaction
Reference groups-form attitudes and life goals
Social networks- who we know and kind of jobs we get
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Social Differencentiation-8
Definition
Diff statuses develope in a group. EX: football player, cheerleaders, coaches-- all in the same organization but diff statuses
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Social Stratification-8
Definition
Structured social inequality- EX: Sports teams, some players get paid more
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Estate System-8
Definition
Ownership of property and exercise of power is monopolized by an elite- Nobles, priesthood, commoners
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Caste System-8
Definition
Quality given to individual at birth
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Class Systems-8
Definition
Placement can change according to personal achievements, depends on ACHIEVED STATUS, more open then caste system
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Social Class-8
Definition
Position groups hold relative to the economic, social, political, and cultural resources of society
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Life Chances-8
Definition
Opportunities people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class
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Socioeconomic status-8
Definition
Income, occupational prestige, education
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Wealth-8
Definition
total value of what one owns, minus one's debt
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Prestige-8
Occupational Prestige-8
Definition
P-value others assign to people
OP- evaluation people give to a job
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Income-8
Definition
1st- amount of money person receives in given period
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Educational attainment-8
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3rd- total years of formal education
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Racial Formation-10
Definition
group comes to be defined as a race
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Out-group homogeneity effect-10
Definition
all members of out group are perceived similar
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Ethnocentrism-10
Definition
one's group is superior to all other groups
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