Social Interaction Flashcards
What is the difference between status and role?
status: position in society used to classify individuals
roles: expectations of a status
What are the three types of statuses ? give an example of each.
Ascribed status: involuntarily assigned such as race, gender, etc.
Achieved status: Voluntarily earned such as olympic athlete, CEO, etc.
Master status: the one that he/she identifies him/herself the most.
Give definitions of Role Performance, Role partners, Role set, Role conflict, Role strain, and Role exit
Role performance: carrying out the behaviors of a given role
Role partners: individual who helps define a specific role within the relationship. The person w/ whom one is interacting with.
Role set: various roles associated with a status.
Role conflict: cannot satisfy requirements of multiple statuses
Role strain: difficulty in satisfying multiple requirements of the same status
Role exit: dropping of one identity for another
Give definitions to: Peer group Family group In-group Out-group Reference group Primary group secondary group Gemeinschaft(community) Gesellschaft(society) Groupthink Group conformity
Peer group:self-selected group
with similar interest, age, status
Family group: group in which one is born, married, adopted
In-group: one which an individual identifies
Out-group: one that an individual opposes
Reference group: one that an individual compare him/herself to
Primary group: one that contains strong, emotional bonds
Secondary group: often temporary, weak, emotional bonds
Gemeinschaft(community): unified group with togetherness by shared belief, ancestry, geography
Gesellschaft(society): unified group by mutual self-interest in achieving a goal
Groupthink: occurs when members begin to conform to one another’s views and ignore outside views
Group conformity: individuals compliant with group’s goals when not necessarily agreeing to it
What is network? what are the two types of network?
observable pattern of social relationships between individuals/groups.
Immediate network: strong
Distant network: weak
What is organization? What are the three types of organizations?
bodies of people with a structure for a specific goal.
Utilitarian: members are paid for their efforts; ex. business, government workers, students
Normative: members unified for shared goals ex. religious groups
Coercive: members who don’t have much choice about membership; ex. prison, military.
How are organization and bureaucracy?
Organizations try to reach maximum efficiency by using Bureaucracy, which use rule, structure, and guidance to keep the organization running everyday
What is Bureaucracy?
Rational system of political organization, administration, discipline, and control. In reality, how a few state officials do the important decision making and not the elected representatives.
What is Bureaucratization?
Making an organization that has more rules, regulations, and micromanaging by a few officials
What is Iron rule of oligarchy?
Idea that even the democratic organization will become more bureaucratic and lead to only a few number of officials in the end who have a lot more power than the rest –> this leads to slow to change because the leaders dont wanna lose power
What is McDonaldization?
shift in focus toward efficiency, predictability, calculability, and control
What is the Basic model of emotional expression?
established by Charles Darwin; emotion developed via evolution so must be same across all cultures
What is Appraisal model?
Agrees with the basic model but adds that evaluation comes before emotion
What is social construction model?
emotion is based on experiences and social context; no biological basis; different in cultures
What are Display rules in expression emotions?
Rules set up by cultural expectations of emotions. Unspoken rules that govern what emotion to show or not
