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What is status?

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  1. Defined by a person’s social position in society
    1. Ascribe statuses: status that can’t change
    2. Achieve status: status you earn yourself after working for it
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What is role strain and role conflict?

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  1. Role strain: tension within one status, when you can’t do all the things that a certain status demands.
  2. Role conflict: conflict between two different statuses, arise
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Primary vs secondary groups

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  1. Primary: provide anchor point, they are close members of the group to you. (family)
  2. Secondary groups: formal and business like relationships ( co-workers)
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What is dramaturgical approach?

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  1. In this approach, Goffman mention that people pay a lot of attention to how they want to be seen via dramaturgy ( acting)

2 Parts of Dramatury

  1. Front stage: manipulating how you are seen to make friends
  2. Back stage: the private part of our lives
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What is impressoin management?

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  • Impression management: when we try to control how people see our front stage acting
  • Backstage: where most people work on impression management
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Discrimination - individual vs. institutional

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what is discrimination: harmful treatments against minorities

  1. Individual discrimination: done at the individual level
  2. Institutional: done by the government or banks etc..
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What is unintentional discrimination?

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  • Some policies can discriminate unintentionally
    • Side-effect discrimination: one institution can influence another negatively
  • Past-In-Present: how things done in the past can affect people in the present
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What are organization and bureaucratizations

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  1. Organizations: organization made for a specific purspoe which try and achieve maximum efficiency
    1. Utilitarian: members are paid for their efforts
    2. Normative organizations: come through shared goals
    3. Coercive: members don’t have a choice over their membership
  2. Bureaucratization: how an organization is ran by law and policy
    1. Iron rule of oligarchy: even democratic organization become more bureaucratic over time to keep order and end up being govern by a few because leaders do not want to give power over time.
    2. Mcdonaldization: the way fast food are ran has come to dominate everything overtime.
      1. efficiency
      2. calculability
      3. predictability
      4. control
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What is Ideal bureaucracy?

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  • Max weber is the psychologist
  • he says that there are 5 main characteristic of an Bureaucracy
  1. Division of labour: people assigned specific tasks
    1. increase alienation
  2. Hierarchy of organization: each position is under supervision of hireauthority
    1. decrease autonomy
  3. written rules and regulation
    1. decrease creativity but clarify expectations
  4. Impersonality: unbias in activity conduction
    1. alienation and discourage loyalty
  5. Employement based on technical qualifications: they hire based on your qualifications
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