Sociology Midterm P2

Question 1

social interaction

Answer 1

process which people act in relation to others

Question 2

status

Answer 2

social position someone holds

Question 3

status set

Answer 3

all statuses someone holds at a given time

Question 4

ascribed status

Answer 4

social position taken at birth or INVOLUNTARY

Question 5

achieved status

Answer 5

status that took personal effort

Question 6

master status

Answer 6

status has special importance for social identity, often shaping entire persons life

Question 7

role

Answer 7

behavior expected of someone who holds a status

Question 8

role set

Answer 8

number of roles attached to one status

Question 9

role conflict

Answer 9

conflict among the other roles connected to two or more statuses

Question 10

role strain

Answer 10

tension among roles connected to one status

Question 11

social construction of reality

Answer 11

process by which people shape reality through social interaction

Question 12

thomas theorem

Answer 12

claim that situations are defined as real, are real in their consequences

Question 13

ethnomethodology

Answer 13

garfinkels term for study of way people make sense of surroundings

Question 14

dramaturgical analysis

Answer 14

goffman’s term for the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance

Question 15

presentation of self

Answer 15

goffmans term for a person’s effort to create specific impressions of others

Question 16

media

Answer 16

channels of communication

Question 17

media literacy

Answer 17

capacity to be critcal consumer of mass and social media

Question 18

digital divide

Answer 18

differences in access to internet

Question 19

media consolidation

Answer 19

trend where increasing share of mass media is owned and controlled by relatively few

Question 20

social group

Answer 20

2 or more people who identify with and interact with eachother

Question 21

primary group

Answer 21

small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships

Question 22

secondary group

Answer 22

large impersonal group, members pursue specific goal or activity

Question 23

instrumental leadership

Answer 23

group leadership that focus on task completion

Question 24

expressive leadership

Answer 24

group leadership that focus on group well-being

Question 25

group think

Answer 25

tendency of group members to conform, results in narrow view towards issue

Question 26

reference group

Answer 26

social group that serves as point of reference in making decisions

Question 27

in-group

Answer 27

social group where member feels respect and loyalty

Question 28

out-group

Answer 28

social group where person feels sense of opposition

Question 29

dyad

Answer 29

social group of TWO members

Question 30

triad

Answer 30

social group with 3 members

Question 31

network

Answer 31

web of week social ties

Question 32

formal organization

Answer 32

large secondary group, goal oriented

Question 33

tradition

Answer 33

behavior, values, beliefs passed generationally

Question 34

rationality

Answer 34

way of thinking that emphasizes deliberate calculation of most efficient task completion

Question 35

rationalization of society

Answer 35

historical change from tradition to rationality for main human thought process

Question 36

burrocracy

Answer 36

organizational model for task efficiency

Question 37

organizational environment

Answer 37

factors outside organization that have an impact on operation

Question 38

beurocratic ritualism

Answer 38

focus on rules and regulations to point of underminding organizations goals

Question 39

bureaucratic inertia

Answer 39

tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate themselves

Question 40

oligarchy

Answer 40

the rule of the many by the few

Question 41

scientific management

Answer 41

frederick taylors term for application of scientific principles to operation of business or large organization