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What is Status?
The responsibilities and benefits that a person experiences according to their rank in society
What is Prestige?
Someone’s reputation or esteem (similar to achieved status)
Verstehen
When a sociologist tries to understand a
Mechanical Solidarity
Cohesion within a society is based on shared beliefs, lifestyles, and occupations—society before industrialization.
Organic Solidarity
Cohesion within a society is based on the interdependence of each other—industrial society.
What was Weber’s idea of the iron cage?
The culmination of industrialization and rationalization in which institutions and bureaucracy trap the individual.
Polygyny
The marriage of one man to two or more women.
Polyandry
The marriage of one woman to two or more men
Family of orientation
Refers to the family a person is born into
Nuclear Family
The combination of two partners and a child or children.
