Social interactions Flashcards
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What is status?
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- Defined by a person’s social position in society
- Ascribe statuses: status that can’t change
- Achieve status: status you earn yourself after working for it
2
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What is role strain and role conflict?
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- Role strain: tension within one status, when you can’t do all the things that a certain status demands.
- Role conflict: conflict between two different statuses, arise
3
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Primary vs secondary groups
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- Primary: provide anchor point, they are close members of the group to you. (family)
- Secondary groups: formal and business like relationships ( co-workers)
4
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What is dramaturgical approach?
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- 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
- Front stage: manipulating how you are seen to make friends
- Back stage: the private part of our lives
5
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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
6
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Discrimination - individual vs. institutional
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what is discrimination: harmful treatments against minorities
- Individual discrimination: done at the individual level
- Institutional: done by the government or banks etc..
7
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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
8
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What are organization and bureaucratizations
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Organizations: organization made for a specific purspoe which try and achieve maximum efficiency
- Utilitarian: members are paid for their efforts
- Normative organizations: come through shared goals
- Coercive: members don’t have a choice over their membership
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Bureaucratization: how an organization is ran by law and policy
- 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.
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Mcdonaldization: the way fast food are ran has come to dominate everything overtime.
- efficiency
- calculability
- predictability
- control
9
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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
- Division of labour: people assigned specific tasks
- increase alienation
- Hierarchy of organization: each position is under supervision of hireauthority
- decrease autonomy
- written rules and regulation
- decrease creativity but clarify expectations
- Impersonality: unbias in activity conduction
- alienation and discourage loyalty
- Employement based on technical qualifications: they hire based on your qualifications