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31 Cards in this Set
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Achieved Status |
Status is attained by the virtue of individual effort |
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Ascribed status |
Status is occupied from the moment a person is born |
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Collective consciousness |
The body of beliefs common to a community or society that give people a sense of belonging and feeling obligation to its demands |
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Cyberspace interaction |
The action of interacting and communicating with one another by means of personal computers through some virtual Community such as email Twitter Facebook or LinkedIn. |
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Division of labor |
Relatedness of different tasks that develop in complex societies |
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Ethnomethodology |
A technique for studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy |
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Gemeinschaft |
A German word that means community |
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Gesellschaft |
A German word that literally means Society |
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Group |
Sociologists refer to a group as a collection of individuals who interact and communicate with each other share goals and norms and have a subjective awareness of themselves as we that is a distinct social unit |
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Impression management |
A process by which people control how others perceive them |
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Macroanalysis |
A sociological approach that takes the broadest view of society by studying large patterns of social interaction that the vast complex and highly differentiated |
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Master status |
Overriding all other features of the person's identity |
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Mechanical solidarity |
Arises when individuals play similar rather than different roles within the society |
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Microanalysis |
In this approach sociologists study patterns of interactions that are relatively small less complex and less differentiated the micro level of society |
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Nonverbal communication |
A form of social interaction that can be seen in various social patterns |
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Organic solidarity |
Occurs when people play a great variety of roles and the unity is based on role differentiation not similarity |
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Post-industrial Society |
Depends economically on the production and distribution of services information and knowledge |
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Pre-industrial Society |
When the directly uses modifies and or tills the land of major means of survival |
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Role |
The behavior of others expect from a person associated with a particular status |
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Role conflict |
Wherein two or more roles are associated with contradictory expectations |
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Role modeling |
A process by which we imitate the behavior of another person we admire who is in a particular role |
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Role set |
Includes all the roles occupied by the person at a given time |
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Role strain |
A condition where in a single role brings conflicting expectations |
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Social institution |
An established and organized system of social behavior with a recognized purpose |
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Social interaction |
Typically within a geographical boundaries that includes both culture and social organization |
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Social organization |
Used by sociologists to describe the order is established in social groups at any level |
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Social structure |
Used by sociologists to refer to the organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose Society |
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Society |
A system of social interaction typically within geographical boundaries that includes both culture and social organization |
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Status |
An established position in a social culture that carries with it a degree of social rank or value |
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Status inconsistency |
Exists where the stages is occupied by a person bring with them significantly different amounts of prestige thus expectations |
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Status set |
The complete set of statuses which a person is currently occupied at the time |
