social construction Flashcards
status
socially defined positions
-can have many at once
achieved status
- status that is earned or acquired
ascribed
someone is born into or imposed by nature
master status
status that dominates others and determines someone general position in society
roles
responsibility that someone holds based on their status
- play a role
role conflict
demands of one status interfere with the demands of another
role strain
the same role has competing demands (doctor in covid)
role exit
leaving a role that us central to a persons self identity
primary groups
- cooley
- close knit and personal
- small
- regular face to face interactiosn
secondary groups
larger groups that are not as personal
simmel on groups
small groups have distinctive interaction patterns that do not exist in larger groups
dyad
group of two members
- both mebers must participate in group
- have a more intense bond
triad
third person in group
- dynamic changes from a dyad
Organic solidarity
- durkheim
- collective consciousness that depends on interdependence
- societies with complexe division of labors
mechanical solidarity
group solidarity
- minimal division of labour
tonnies
social grouping in urban and rural life
gemeinschaft and gesellschaft
gemeinschaft
community
intimate and family and kinship
gesellschaft
society
- inpersonal
sociocultural evolution
- gerhard lenski
- social structures change as technology becomes more sophisticated
stages of sociocultural evolution
- hunting and gathering (nomadic)
- horticultural (more settled)
- agrarian (larger more stable settlements)
- indistrial (mechanical power)
- postindustrial (reliance of service)
- postmodern (high technology)
bureaucracy
- weber
component of formal orginization that uses rules and hierichal ranking to achieve efficiency
principles of buraucracy
- division of labor
- hierachal authoriy
- written rules
- impersonality
- employment based on technical skills
peter principle
principle of organized life according to which every employe within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence
mcdonaldization
ritzer
- creates lesser choice and quality of service and