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| Pattern of social relationships that exists within a particular group or society. |
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| Process by which people act toward or respond to other people; it is the foundation for all relationships and groups in a society. |
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| A socially defined position in a group or society characterized by certain expectations, rights, and duties. |
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| Consists of all the statuses that a person occupies |
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| A social position that is determined at birth or involuntarily later in life such as race/ethnicity, age, or gender. |
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| A social position that a person assumes voluntarily as a result of personal choice, merit, or direct effort. |
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| The most important status that a person occupies |
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| A situation in which incompatible role demands are placed on a person by two or more statuses held at the same time. |
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| Occurs when incompatible demands are built into a single status that a person occupies. |
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| A point in which people disengage from social roles that have been central to their self identity. |
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| A group that consists of two or more people who interact frequently and share a common identity and a feeling of interdependence. |
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| (Charles Cooley), a small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotion-based interactions over an extended period of time. |
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| A larger, more specialized group in which members engage in more impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time. |
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| A highly structured group formed for the purpose of completing certain tasks or achieving specific goals. |
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| A set of organized beliefs and rules that establishes how a society will attempt to meet its basic and social needs. |
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Essential Task of Social Institution
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2. Teaching new members
3. Producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services
4. Perserving order
5. Providing and Maintaining a sense of purpose |
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Essential Task of Social Institution
1. Replacing members
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3. Producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services
4. Perserving order
5. Providing and Maintaining a sense of purpose |
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Essential Task of Social Institution
1. Replacing members
2. Teaching new members
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4. Perserving order
5. Providing and Maintaining a sense of purpose |
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| 3. Producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services. |
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Essential Task of Social Institution
1. Replacing members
2. Teaching new members
3. Producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services
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5. Providing and Maintaining a sense of purpose |
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Essential Task of Social Institution
1. Replacing members
2. Teaching new members
3. Producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services
4. Perserving order
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| 5. Providing and Maintaining a Sense of Purpose. |
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| The Social Cohesion in preindustrial societies in which there is minimal division of labor and people feel united by shared values and common social bonds. |
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| Mechanical and Organic Solidarity (Durkheim) |
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| The social cohesion in industrial societies in which people perform very specialized tasks and feel united by their mutual dependence. |
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| Organic Solidarity (Durkheim) |
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| How different tasks in a society are divided and performed among its members. |
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| Traditional society in which social relationships are based on personal bonds or friendship, kinship, and intergenerational stability. |
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| A large, urban society in which social bonds are based on impersonal and specialized relationships with little long-term commitment to the group or consensus on values. |
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| A society based on technologogy that mechanizes production |
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| A society in which technology supports a service and information-based economy. |
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| The process by which our perception of reality is shaped largely by the subjective meaning that we give to and experience. |
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| Social Construction of Reality |
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| The situation in which a false belief or prediction produces behavior that makes the originally false belief come true. |
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| The study of the commonsense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves |
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| The study of social interaction that compares everyday life to a theatrical presentation. |
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| Peoples efforts to present themselves to others in ways that are most favorable to their own interests or image. |
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| Impressional Management (presentation of self) [Erving Goffman] |
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| the strategies we use to rescue our porformance when we experience a potential or actual loss of face. |
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| Face Saving Behavior [Goffman] |
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| The transfer of information between persons without the use of speech |
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| The immediate area surrounding a person that the person claims as their own, private space. |
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| Personal Space [Edward Hall] |
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Halls Distance Zones
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1. Intimate Distance
2. Personal Distance
3. Social Distance
4. Public Distance |
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Changes in U.S. Social Structure due to:
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2. Ascribed statuses have a significant effect on people's options and opportunities
3. Changing social structure has resulted in high levels of stress and fear of crime
4. Increas of unemployment |
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| People Occupy more statuses |
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Changes in U.S. Social Structure due to:
1. People can occupy more statuses
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3. Changing social structure has resulted in high levels of stress and fear of crime
4. Increase of unemployment |
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| Ascribed statuses have a significant affect of people's options and opportunities. |
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Changes in U.S. Social Structure due to:
1. People can occupy more statuses
2. Ascribed statuses have a significant effect on people's options and opportunities
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4. Increase of unemployment |
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| Changed social structure has resulted in high levels of stress and fear of crime. |
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Changes in U.S. Social Structure due to:
1. People can occupy more statuses
2. Ascribed statuses have a significant effect on people's options and opportunities
3. Changing social structure has resulted in high levels of stress and fear of crime
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| Increase in unemployment. |
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