Social Interactions

Question 1

Ascribed status

Answer 1

Status given at birth

Question 2

Achieved status

Answer 2

Status you earn

Question 3

Role strain

Answer 3

I’m individual status. Too many competing factors

I’m a student: homework, study, labs

Question 4

Role conflict

Answer 4

Multiple roles compete.

Friends want to hang out but I have homework.
I have to choose one

Question 5

Primary groups

Answer 5

Long term, intimate

Family, friends, good people

Question 6

Secondary groups

Answer 6

Short term, formal, goal oriented

Work partners

Question 7

Dramatury

Answer 7

Front stage: thought out, in social settings

Backstage: private life

Question 8

Impression management

Answer 8

How you want others to perceive you in front stages. Multiple front stages

One backstage: work on impression management

Question 9

Individual discrimination

Answer 9

A single person acting against a certain group

Question 10

Institutional discrimination

Answer 10

A company, govt taking action against a certain group

Question 11

Side effect discrimination

Answer 11

Unintentional discrimination as a result of an original discrimination

Black people go to jail—> he can’t get a job because of criminal record

Question 12

Past in present discrimination

Answer 12

Unintentional!

Negative attitude from past being brought up as a present discrimination

Question 13

Prejudice

Answer 13

Negative Attitudes (not actions ) towards someone

Question 14

Utilitarian Organizations

Answer 14

Members are paid for efforts

Question 15

Normative organization

Answer 15

Members have shared goals

Question 16

Coercive organizations

Answer 16

You’re forced. Military, prison

Question 17

Bureaucratization

Answer 17

When organization becomes governed by laws and policies, organized

Hierarchy of power💯

Costumer service

Question 18

Iron rule of oligarchy

Answer 18

Even democracies become bureaucracy—> very few running the place. People don’t want to give up positions

Question 19

Mcdonaldizarion

Answer 19

Standardized

Efficiency
Calculability
Predictability

Question 20

Characteristics of idea bureaucracy

Answer 20

1. Decision of labor
2. Hierarchy of organization
3. Written rules
4. Impersonality
5. Employment based on qualification

Question 21

Generalized other

Answer 21

Society as a whole

Question 22

Emotions

Answer 22

Cognitive
Behavioral
Physiological

Temporary, intensity, involuntary

6 universal emotions (faces)

Question 23

Foraging behavior

Answer 23

Searching for food

1. solitary foraging
2. group foraging

Genetics & learning

Question 24

Animal communication

Answer 24

Humans: Language, nonverbal cues (smile), visual cues (how I’m dressed)

Animals: nonverbal, visual

Question 25

Random mating

Answer 25

Pretty straightforward

Question 26

Assertive mating

Answer 26

Individuals with similar traits are likely to mate

Problem with in breeding

Question 27

Disassortative mating

Answer 27

Individuals with diverse traits mate

Question 28

Inclusive fitness

Answer 28

Behave altruistically towards someone with similar genetics

Help pass of “your” genes

Question 29

Game theory

Answer 29

Each individual player affects the entire group

No conscious intention

Helps expect traits in populations

Game theory explains social interactions

Question 30

Stereotype threat

Answer 30

Negative stereotype influences someone to do poorly on a task. You don’t have to believe the stereotypes

Question 31

Self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 31

You expect something to happen, and that actually causes it to happen. You give in to the stereotypes