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System of social interaction that includes both culture and social organization.
Society
Refers to meaningful behavior between two or more people.
Social Interaction
Refers to the technique sociologist use to investigate the small, less complex, and less differentiated.
Microanalysis
Refers to the technique sociologists use to comprehend society as a whole.
Macroanalysis
Describes the order established in social groups.
Social Organization
Established and organized systems of social behavior with recognized purposes.
Social Institutions
When people play similar roles within society.
Mechanical Solidarity
Occurs when people play a great variety of roles in society.
Organic Solidarity
Ones that directly use, modify or till the land as a major means of survival.
Preindustrial Societies
They use machines and other advanced technologies to produce and distribute goods and services.
Industrial Societies
They depend on the production of goods and distributions of services, information and knowledge.
Postindustrial Societies
- Individuals who interact with each other
- Share goals and norms
- Have a subjective awareness of themselves as a distinct social unit
Groups
Established position or rank in a social structure that carries with it: prestige or social value. (Job)
Status
Complete set of statuses occupied by one person at a given time.
Status Set
When two of your statuses have a block within them.
Status Inconsistency
Status attained by independent effort.
Achieved Status
Status that is automatically assigned to a person at birth.
Ascribed Status
Dominant status for an individual that overrides all other features of a person's identity.
Master Status
Expected behavior or collections of expectations associated with a particular status.
Role
Includes all of the roles occupied by a person at a given time.
Role Set
Process in which one imitates the behavior of an admired person.
Role Modeling
Occurs when two or more roles have contradictory expectations.
Role Conflict
A condition in which a single role brings conflicting expectations.
Role Strain
Argues that our perception of what is real is determined by the subjective meaning that we attribute to an experience.
Social Construction of Reality
Argues that social interactions are determined by the rewards or punishments that we receive from other people.
Social Exchange Theory
A mathematical and economic theory that predicts human interaction.
- Has the characteristics of a "game".
Social Game Theory
Includes both verbal and non-verbal communication.
Social Interaction
Verbal Communication
Author
Lukehoward
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9880
Card Set
Sociology
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Test 2
Updated
2010-03-10T16:46:20Z
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