Society and Social Interaction

Question 1

Achieved Status:

Answer 1

The status a person chooses, such as a level of education or income.

Question 2

Agricultural Societies:

Answer 2

Societies that rely on farming as a way of life.

Question 3

Alienation:

Answer 3

An individual’s isolation from his society, his work, and his sense of self.

Question 4

Anomie:

Answer 4

A situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness.

Question 5

Ascribed Status:

Answer 5

The status outside of an individual’s control, such as sex or race.

Question 6

Bourgeoisie:

Answer 6

The owners of the means of production in a society.

Question 7

Capitalism:

Answer 7

A way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products such as land, oil, factories, ships and more are owned by individual people and companies rather than by the government.

Question 8

Class Consciousness:

Answer 8

The awareness of one’s rank in society.

Question 9

Collective Conscience:

Answer 9

The communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society.

Question 10

False Consciousness:

Answer 10

A person’s beliefs and ideology that are in conflict with their best interests.

Question 11

Feudal Societies:

Answer 11

Societies that operate on a strict hierarchical system of power based around land ownership and protection.

Question 12

Habitualization:

Answer 12

The idea that society is constructed by us and those before us, and it is followed like a habit.

Question 13

Horticultural Societies:

Answer 13

Societies based around the cultivation of plants.

Question 14

Hunter-gatherer Societies:

Answer 14

Societies that depend on hunting wild animals and gathering uncultivated plants for survival.

Question 15

Industrial Societies:

Answer 15

Societies characterized by a reliance on mechanized labor to create material goods.

Question 16

Information Societies:

Answer 16

Societies based on the production of nonmaterial goods and services.

Question 17

Institutionalization:

Answer 17

The act of implanting a convention or norm into society.

Question 18

Iron Cage:

Answer 18

A situation in which an individual is trapped by social institutions.

Question 19

Looking-glass Self:

Answer 19

Our reflection of how we think we appear to others.

Question 20

Mechanical Solidarity:

Answer 20

A type of social order maintained by the collective consciousness of a culture.

Question 21

Organic Solidarity:

Answer 21

A type of social order based around an acceptance of economic and social differences.

Question 22

Pastoral Societies:

Answer 22

Societies based around the domestication of animals.

Question 23

Proletariat:

Answer 23

The laborers in a society.

Question 24

Rationalization:

Answer 24

A belief that modern society should be built around logic and efficiency rather than morality or tradition.

Question 25

Role Conflict:

Answer 25

A situation when one or more of an individual’s roles clash.

Question 26

Role Performance:

Answer 26

The expression of a role.

Question 27

Role Strain:

Answer 27

Stress that occurs when too much is required of a single role.

Question 28

Role-set:

Answer 28

An array of roles attached to a particular status.

Question 29

Roles:

Answer 29

Patterns of behavior that are representative of a person’s social status.

Question 30

Self-fulfilling Prophecy:

Answer 30

An idea that becomes true when acted upon.

Question 31

Social Integration:

Answer 31

How strongly a person is connected to his or her social group.

Question 32

Status:

Answer 32

The responsibilities and benefits that a person experiences according to his or her rank and role in society.

Question 33

Thomas Theorem:

Answer 33

How a subjective reality can drive events to develop in accordance with that reality, despite being originally unsupported by objective reality.