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| describe types of interactins that go on in relationships |
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| voluntary interaction in which parties trade tangible and intangible benefits with the epectation that all parties will bennefit |
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| one of the most basic processes of social interaction almost all voluntary relationships involve expectation of exchange |
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| only works if both parties get something out of it |
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| expectation that ppl will return favors and stive to maintain a balance of obligation in social relationship |
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| interaction that occurs when ppl work together to achieve shared goals |
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| strugle over scarce resources that is regulated by shared rules |
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| struggle over scarce resources that is not regulated by shared rules, may include attempts to destroy, injure, neutralize one's rivals |
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| collection of 2 or more ppl who interact on basis of shared social structure and recognize mutual dependency |
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| interact w/in shared social structures of statuses, roles and norms, and recognize that they deped on each other |
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| groups that undividuals compare themsleves to regularly |
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| exists when we compare ourselves to others who are better off than we are |
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| intimate, face-to-face interaction |
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| formal, large, and imoersonal, serve instrumental needs, to accomplish a specific task |
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| large, allow better problem solving |
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| allows individual ability to contribute more than secondary |
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| if your closer in prominity you become closer intimately |
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| characterized by high levels of interaction and by strong feelings of attachment and dependency |
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| many things we deal with and believe in |
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| are not true or correct in any absolute sense, simply what our groups have agreed to accept as right |
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9 college students, set up so last person was to agree or disagree with group, 37% just agreed
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| shock student if wrong 2/3 kept shocking past danger limit |
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| when pressure to agree are strong enough to stifle critical thinking |
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| an individuals total set of relationships |
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| essential for society, decrease risk of suicide and individual will care about and participate more in society |
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| relationships characterized by intimacy, emtional intensity and sharing; bond us to those who are close to us |
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| relationships characterized by low intensity and lack of intimacy, bridge gap b/t us and others with whom we are less closely tied |
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| with distinction b/t prim and secondary groups |
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ties= 1 to 1 relationships
groups apply to groups as a whole |
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nonprofit organizations designed to allow individuals and opportunity to persue thier shared interests collectively
ppl who participate=happier, longer life, greater sense of community |
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| relationships in voluntary associations |
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| most weak ties, but can introduce us to few ppl who we will create strong ties with |
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| collection of individuals characterized by dense, cross-cutting social networks |
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| help make society closer, allows ppl to find out similarities b/t ppl |
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| large, formal orgnizations with elaborate status networks |
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| special type of complex organization charcterized by explicit rules and hierarchical authority structure, all designed to maximize efficiency |
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| bureaucracy characterized by |
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| division of labor, heirarchical authority, rules and regulations, impersonal realtionships, careers, tenure and technical qualifications, efficiency |
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| follow bureaucracy too closely |
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| chaos will form, so most organizations try to create an atmosphere of goodwill and common purpose among members so that they will apply thier ingenuity and best efforts to meeting organizational goals |
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| pattern of norms and values that structures how buisness is actully carries out in an organization |
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| drawbacks of organizational culture |
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| ritualism, alienation, structured inequality |
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| principles of fast-food restaurant (efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control) are coming to dominate more sectors of american society |
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| disadvantages of mcdonaldization |
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| company uses voicemail system to eliminate need of operators, customer has to waste time linstening to all the choices hope that one of them will refer to thier problem they are looking for |
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