Human Behaviors

Question 0

Assimilation

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The culture uniqueness of the minority group is abandoned and the blend into dominant culture.

Question 1

Bicultural socialization

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Minority group or member masters both the dominant culture and his/he own. (Dual identity)

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

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Tendency to elevate our own ethnic group and its social and culture process over others

Question 3

Accommodation

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Partial cultural change, minority groups follow norms, rules, and standards of the dominant culture in specific circumstances

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Structural functionalism

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Society is a big system, all parts of society and social institutions work together to produce social harmony & equilibrium and embody shared norms and values

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Manifest function

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What appears to be the function of it

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Latent function

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What the social phenomena is actually contributing

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Comformity

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Keep trying to attain e goal by legitimate means

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Innovation

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Keep trying to attain goals by illegitimate means (cheating)

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Ritualism

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Don’t believe you will accomplish the goal, but continue doing the means (going to work, etc)

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Retreatism

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Give up on shared norms and values, don’t go for goals or continue doing the means.

Question 11

Rebellion

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A last resort, want to replace the norms and values put in place by social institutions with new ones

Question 12

Symbolic interaction

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Social structure doesn’t matter, but what does matter is face to face interaction that people have with each other and how in a specific time and place, two or more people making meaning of symbols

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Mind

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Capacity to think about the self and experiences and assign meanings to them (make symbols)

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Self

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The symbol that you put together based on interactions with others and society, your social construction.

Question 15

Marxian conflict theory

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Society is a big structure, with social institutions set up by people with money and power to protect their privilege

Question 16

Social exchange theory

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Society so all about making deals with people in social exchange, we choose rationally.

Question 17

Peter Blau: principle of Conflict Exchange

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If people perceive inequality, the gap between superiors and subordinates grows

Subordinate collectively experience it with increasing sense of deprivation, codify an ideology, feel a solidarity together, and opposition becomes an end itself

Question 18

Devolution (new federalism)

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Reagan called the federal government sending responsibilities back to the states

Question 19

Privatization

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Government sells enterprises that produce goods or services to the private sector

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Contracting-out

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Government retains ultimate control, but contracts some activities with private organization.

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Deregulation

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Government gives up claims to regulate particular activities (more freedom)

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Ecologically

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Relationship to the larger social environment

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Horizontal stressor

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Historical events that unfolding linear way, moving through time (9/11)

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Vertical stressor

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Pounding down on historical events and time (discrimination, sexism)

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Psychoeducational

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Professional share their expertise with other group members (not a therapy group). People looking for information, not a treatment.

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Task

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Formed to accomplish specific goals, generally in the workplace. OR advocate for a certain issue.

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Self-help

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Like AA, people meet with a common identity/situation and help each other and themselves and form social supports

• leader has personal experience with the problem.

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Natural

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Develop spontaneously because of a naturally-occurring event (i.e. group of friends)

Question 29

Therapy

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Enables individuals work out emotional/behavioral difficulties

Question 30

Scientific management model

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Optimize production through finding best empirical way to do something

Question 31

Human relation model

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Enhance productivity and reduce work related conflict through the building of cohesion in small groups.

Question 32

Complexity

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Number of division, units, departments

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Centralization

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Degree to which power is retained at or near the top of the organization.

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Formalization

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Degree to which the rules are spelled out in detail.

Question 35

Group-think

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The need to achieve consensus becomes more important than looking at all options (happens in a cohesive group)

Question 36

Activities

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Intensity of things happening

Question 37

Comfort

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Easy to perform task in. Meets sensory and mobility needs

Question 38

Sociality

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Degree to which it allows social interaction

Question 39

Sensory stimulation

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Quality and intensity of stimulation (how loud, quiet)

Question 40

Accessibility

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Ease of movement through and use of environment

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Legibility

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Degree to which you can effectively find your way (read signs, etc.)

Question 42

Crowding

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Being spatially cramped, which people an only take for so long

Question 43

Stimulation theory

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Physical environment is a source of sensory information that is essential for human well-being.

Question 44

Behavior setting theory

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Consistent & uniform behavior patterns occur I particular settings.

• setting is stronger predictor of behavior than personality.

Question 45

Locational communities

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Share common residence or territory

Question 46

Identificational communities

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Share a sense of identity, regardless of location

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Interest communities

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Based on common goals and objectives