Chapter 5 Flashcards
Master Status
dominates all other statuses (Everett C Hughes)
Status Hierarchy
ranking of statuses – based on
prestige and power
Status Consistency/Inconsistency:
statuses ‘line up’ /
highly ranked in one category but not in others,
leading to targeting of people or groups
Status Inconsistency
tension from statuses not
‘lining up’
Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
First to focus on the daily one-on-
one social interactions
Thomas Theorem
tells us: the interpretation of a situation causes the action, if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
Definition of the Situation
in certain contexts, people define situations differently
often in contradictory ways, based on their
own subjective experiences
Thomas Theorem and Robert Merton
Supports notion of self-fufilling prophecy so beliefs can act as social forces
Labeling
negative labels applied to a status – powerful
master status created and internalized (Amir Sped Poem)
Front stage
Front Stage: public display
Reflects actor’s social status; Manner
tells audience what to expect
Back Stage
personal
encounters; no audience;
informal action
Impression Management
Describes the tactics people employ
when presenting themselves publicly
Social organization
Social and cultural principles around which
things are structured, ordered, and
categorized (eg egalitarianism)
Webers work on bureaucracy
Studied why people act the way they do socially. He challenged the scientific school of thought, and he questioned individual freedom in an increasing rational society
Critical Management Studies
Challenges the dominant assumptions of organizations
