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Quiz #4
Social Stucture
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Sociology
Not Applicable
09/23/2009

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Social Structue
Definition
a network of interrelated statuses and roles that guide us
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Status
Definition
your socially defined position in a group
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Role
Definition
the behavior, the rights, and obligations that is expected in our status
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Reciprocal Roles
Definition
corosponding roles (ex. doctor-patient, employer-employee)
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Role Set
Definition
Different roles attached to a single status
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Social Institution
Definition
statuses and roles are organized to satisfy one or more of the basic needs of society
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Ascribed Status
Definition
a status that you have no control over (ex. being a teenager)
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Achieved Status
Definition
A status that you earned (ex. athlete)
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Master Status
Definition
the status that plays the greatest role in shaping who you are
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Role Conflict
Definition
Fulfulling the role expectations of one status makes it difficult to do the other
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Role Strain
Definition
when we have difficulty fulfilling our role expectations
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Exchange
Definition
interact in an effort to recieve an award
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Conflict
Definition
In our attempt to achieve a goal we must defeat somebody else
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Reciprocity
Definition
if you do something for someone they owe you something
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Exchange Theory
Definition
people do things for rewards
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Competition
Definition
two or more people/groups compete for a goal
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Cooperation
Definition
working together to achieve a goal
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Accomodation
Definition
a balance between cooperation a d conflict
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Group
Definition
people who interact on the basis of shared expectations
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Subsistence Society
Definition
the way a society uses technology
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Division of Labor
Definition
where people specialize in certain things
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barter
Definition
exchange of a good or service
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urbanization
Definition
people settling together
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Mechanical Solidarity
Definition
everybody is doing the same job
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Gemeinschaft
Definition
A society in which everybody knows each other
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Gesellscaft
Definition
a society in which relationships are based on need
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Pre industial society
Definition
food production is the #1 economic activity
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Industial Society
Definition
food production to the production of manufactured goods
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Post industrial Society
Definition
most people provide services and information
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Aggregate
Definition
a group of people with no organization
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Social Category
Definition
classify people according to their status
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Social Networks
Definition
the total of directs and no direct groups
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What are the 4 features of a group?
Definition
2 or more people, shared expectations, must have interaction among members, share a common identity
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Dyad
Definition
2 people in a group
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Triad
Definition
3 people in a group
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Small Group
Definition
15 or less people in a group
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Primary Group
Definition
small roup that interact through a long period of time
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Secondary Group
Definition
interaction is impersonal and temporary
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Reference
Definition
the group we identify with
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In-Group
Definition
the group you hangout with
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Out-group
Definition
the group you arn't in
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E-communities
Definition
you interact regularly on the internet
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Formal Organization
Definition
a large, complex, secondary group
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Bureaucracy
Definition
ranked authority, specific rules and procedures
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Rationality
Definition
calculated, measured, controlled
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Voluntary Association
Definition
Non-profit
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Iron Law of Oligarchy:
Definition
an organization will usually take control
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Subordinates
Definition
people you have control over
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Peter's Principle
Definition
People are promoted to jobs they cannot do
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Five characteristics of Max Weber's discription of bureaucracy
Definition
Division of labor, ranking of Authority, rules and regulations, jobs based on qualifications, specific lines of promotion
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