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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Status

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Social patterm occipied, social identiy & imposes responsibilites & expectations

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Status Set

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Collection of statuses over lifetime

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Master Status

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“truimphs” all other statuses, Everett Hughes

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Achieved Status

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Not born into

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Ascribed Status

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Born into or entered involuntarily

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Status Hierarchy

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Ranking of statuses

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Status Consistency

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condition where all statuses are within the same range of social hiearchy

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Status inconsistency

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person holds social statuses that don’t align, ranked differently

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Role

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Set of behaviours associated w/ particular statuses

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Role Set

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Robert Merton - all roles attached to partcular status

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Role Strain

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conflict, ex. student catches classmate cheating

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Role conflict

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mother & university student

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Role Exit

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diengaging from role that has been central to ones identity

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14
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Thorleif Ebbe

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pecking order

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15
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George Simmler

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Studied daily one on one interactions

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16
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Charles Cooley

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identity formation thru looking glass self

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Frederic Thrasher

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defintion situation concept, the notion that different individuals will define a given situation differently

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Robert Bales

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system, of coding interaction in small groups called “interaction process analysis” ex. sub/dom

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Max Weber

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bureaucracy marked by formal rationalization

effeciency, qualifications, predictability, control

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Freder Taylor

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scientific management, time & motions, effeciency of worker

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George Ritzer

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macdonaldization, dominization, applied Webers 4 elements of rationalizations

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social organization

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social/cultural principles around which people & things are categorized

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organized structure

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beliefs/principles upheld by shared cultural beliefs, maintained by the social relation, shaped by esomology

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esomology

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an account of the origin and ruling principles of the universe

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study of organizations

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effective & efficient management practices

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organizational ritual

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from of social action here a groups values & identity are publicaly demonstrated

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substantive rationalzation

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focus on values & ethics

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formal rationalization

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leads to disenchantment & alienation, cause; digital age

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Deviance

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behaviour that strays away from the normal

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Overt Characteristics

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actions or quantites taken as explicitly violating the culteral norm

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covert characteristics

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the unstated qualities that might make a group a target for sanctions

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conflict deviance

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a disagreement among groups over wether or not something is deviant

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social constuctionism

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proposes that certain elements of social life, such as deviance are not natural and created by a society or culture

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essentialism

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argues that there is something natural and therfore objectivly determined about these characteristics

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Stigma

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  1. bodily - physical deformities
  2. moral - blemishes of individual character
  3. tribal - transmitted through group association
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“the other”

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an image constructed by the dominant culture to characterize subcultures

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moral panic

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a campaign designed to arose concern over an issue or group

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moral entrepreneur

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a person who tries to convince others of their need to take action around a socail problem that they have defined

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radiating deviance

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linking particular ethnic groups especially viable minorites - with certain forms of deviance

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patriarchal contruct

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social constructs that favour boys/men over girls/women

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White Collar Crime type 1

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  1. occupational crimes - hand the indiv. @ the expense of other individuals who work for the company ex. sexual harrasment
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White collar crime 2

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coroperate crimes - benefit the cooperation

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Marx’s two possible relationships to the means of production

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the owner (aristrocrates) & the peasent class of the pre-industrial era

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Marx identified sub-classes

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  1. petty: small-time owners w/little capital

2. Lumpenprtariat: small time criminals, beggers, unemplyed

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Marx on social inequality

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wrote @ the height of the industrial revolution

struggle between capitalist interests and workers rights

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Marx: three elements that contribute to social equality

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  1. Wealth - factories, property used to make money & properties that are highly respected by members of society (quatar backs - flashy cars)
  2. Prestige - the degree of respect an individuals, their society, valued professionals and their master statuses are viewed by majority of people in a society
  3. power - ability of individuals or groups to achieve their goals despite the opposition of others
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dominant middle class

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own/ control large scale production

48
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Middle Class

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representing mixed…middle catergory of small bussiness people, educated professionals

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Working Class

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people who lack resources or capacities apart from their own labour power

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Master Narrative

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the a nation tells itself to celebrate its past & present

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Five approaches to understanding enthnic conflict

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  1. Social constructivism
  2. instrumentalism
  3. essentialism
  4. epiphenomenal
  5. postcolonialism
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Essentialism

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the view that every ethnic group is definied by a laundry list of traits carried down from the past to present with no change

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colonialism

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the economic & political exploitaiton of weaker country or people by a stronger one

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postcolonialism

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analzation the destructive impact of colocoalism has on the conlonizer/colonized

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Epiphenomenal

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describes the secondary effect that arises from, but does not casually influence a seperate phenomenon

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Social constructivism

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a view that is ethnicity is artifical, constructed by individuals to serve an agenda

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Standpoint theory

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persepective is shaped by socail location, gender, age etc.

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Standpoint theory

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persepective is shaped by socail location, gender, age etc.

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intersectionality

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the way different social factors combine to shape the experierience of a minoritized group

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racial bigotry

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open, conscious expression of racist views

61
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systemic or institutional racism

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racist practices, laws

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