CH 4 Flashcards
1
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Social interaction
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- What people do when they come together
- micro
2
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Social structure
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- Typical patterns of a group
- guides our behavior
Ex. Relationships between women and men
3
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Social class
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Large numbers of people who have similar income and education and who work at jobs that are comparable in prestige
4
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Status
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Position that someone occupies; guides behavior
Ex. Daughter, student
5
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Status set
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All the statuses or positions that you occupy
6
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Ascribed status
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Involuntary, given at birth
Ex. Race, social class of parents
7
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Achieved status
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Voluntary, earned
Ex. Friend, student, lawyer, drop out
8
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Status symbols
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Signs that identify a status
Ex. Wedding rings
9
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Master status
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- cuts across your other statuses
Ex. Sex, age race, job, wealth, scars
10
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Status inconsistency
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Mismatch among statuses
Ex. 14 y/o college student
11
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Roles
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- Behaviors, obligations, privileges attached to a status
- set at birth
- certain amount of freedom
Ex. Girls vs boys - occupy a status; play a role
Ex. Status is student; role is study
12
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Socialization
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- cave into norms
- want to do what our roles indicate is appropriate
13
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Group
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- People who interact with one another and feel that the values they have in common are important
- feel obligation to affirm the group’s values
- yield to other the right to judge our behavior
Ex. Social class, status, role
14
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Social institutions
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- Standard or usual ways that a society meets its basic needs
- set the context for behavior and orientations to life
Ex. Family, religion, medicine, politics
15
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Hunting and gathering societies
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- few social divisions; little inequality
- men hunt, women gather or both do both
