SOC Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Primary groups

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intense emotional ties, intimacy, and identification with membership in the group

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Secondary groups

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large, impersonal groups with minimal emotional/intimate ties

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3
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cooleys looking glass-self

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we judge ourselves by how we think we appear to others

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4
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Reference groups

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provides a standard for judging our own attitudes

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5
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George Simmel group sizes

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group size affects quality of interaction

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6
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Dyad

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group of two persons

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Triad

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group of three people

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8
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Alliances or coalitions

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groups that may form between two members, enabling them to “gang up” on the third member

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9
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Social closure

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ability of groups to exclude outsiders or “undesirables” from participating

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10
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role

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A behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status

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11
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role set

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To identify a number of roles attached to a single status

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12
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role conflict

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A conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses

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13
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role strain

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Tension among the roles connected to a singular status

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14
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role exit

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The process by which people disengage from important social roles

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15
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Transformational Leaders

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: instill a sense of mission or higher purpose, transforming the nature of the group

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16
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Transactional Leaders

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concerned with accomplishing group tasks and goals

17
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Power

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ability to mobilize resources and achieve a goal despite resistance of others

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Positional Power

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stems from the official leadership position

19
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personal power

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: derived from the leader’s personality

20
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groupthink

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when group members ignore anything that goes against group consensus

21
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Structuralism

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The idea that there exists an overarching structure within which culture and other aspects of society must be understood.

22
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Economic capital

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: money and material that can be used to produce goods and services

23
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cultural capital

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informal, interpersonal skills, habits, manners, linguistic styles, tastes, and lifestyles

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social capital

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personal connections and networks that enable people to accomplish goals and extend influence

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Bureaucracy
based on written procedural rules, hierarchy of authority
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Iron cage of bureaucracies
become trapped in a prison of rules and regulations that denies humanity, creativity, and autonomy