Soc 1 Quiz 6

Sociology 001 with Fulton at Pennsylvania State University - All Campuses

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By: Bill Modi
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The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology
Created: 2010-10-14
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Social Structure

Relationship of people to one another
-Directs behavior and sets limits on behavior
-behavior depends on place in social structure
-Set of relatively stable rules

Status

Position a person occupies in a social structure
-Achieved (College student, teacher)
-Ascribed (sex/gender, race)

Role

Sum of total expectations about the behavior of people who occupy a specific social status

Role Conflict

Expectations of behavior clash ( within 1 status or within 2 statuses)
-Babysitter and a lover

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Expression one gives

What you say, using verbal symbols

Expression one gives off

Act opposite to expressions you give, non verbal

Defining the situation

Others voluntarily do what we want them to do
Ex: Dim lights and put on Barry White makes situation romantic

Scripts

People follow imaginary scripts
-For every action, people expect people to act in a certain way. (people go off -scripts all the time)
-Front Stage, Back Stage

Status Symbol

Wedding ring=married, Badge=Police
Each status is accompanied by expectations

Master Status

Expected expectations about how someone will play their role
-Female Soldier, Male nurse

group

With one or more other individuals with whom we share some sense of identity or common goal and with whom we interact within a specific structure

Social Aggregation

Some collectivity of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time
-Ex: Football game

Primary Group

Face to face, intimate (competition could take place)
Family, friends
GEMEINSHAFT

Secondary Group

Bigger group, means to an end relationship (individual needs)
Status is important, not character
GESELLSCHAFT

Formal Organization

Groups of people band together to achieve a specific goal and formalize their relationships with each other
-Generally operate under charter that specifies statuses ( pres., vp)

Ideal type of Bureaucracy

What is left when you strip away all parts of an org that are not necessary to it being a Bureaucracy
-Fully rationalized org (structure calculated to meet goals efficiently)

Iron Cage

People so trapped in bureauc. that they loose sight of reason they are doing this

Goal Displacement

Process becomes more important than the outcome
Ex: Exam success more important than learning the material

A performance involves

Activity of a participant that serves to influence others in some way
-If one's presentation of self has been discredited, one is apt to feel shame or embarassment

Social Harmony is most likely to occur when...

Interactions is ungaurded and candid ( people are free to express feelings honestly)

True or False: Zimbardo's experiment demonstrated fact that sociologist ought to place more stress on understanding differences in individual psychology and and less on situational conditions

False

Harvey Molotch Rest Room article

Structure affects behaviors as well as opportunities
-Public toilets are equal for diff social groups (men and women)
-Equality no matter of arithmetic division, but of social accounting
- Rule that bathrooms are same size is unfair to the individual women

Molotch Agree/Disagree

Agree: Equal treatment yields unequal results, gender blindness (racial blindness) may yield unequal results, Equality must be assessed in terms of cultural as well as physical traits, Policy makers ought to listen to Soiciologists
Disagree: Women need to use the space allotted to them more efficiently

Institution

General Solution to societal problems
- religion

Social Structure

Specific social group, example of the institution.
-Still have some or all institutionalized norms, values statuses, and roles
-Ex: Congregation Brit Shalom

Social Institutions

Phenomena that account for much of the fact that social structures tend to be enduring and repetitive
-Accepted and persistent, slowly changing, constellation of statuses, roles, values, and norms

Nature of Institutions

Generally unplanned
Inherently Conservative (they change, but slowly)
Particular society's institutions are interdependent, change in one area brings change in another
Statuses, roles, values, and norms associated w the institution in one society are diff than those of others

Society

Totality of people and social relations in a given geographic space
-Institutions started with society
-2 components: Self Sufficient and Within a geographic location
-Self Sufficiency: defining characteristic of society

Societal Needs

Continuing supply of new members
Socialize new members
Deal with health issues
Create Knowledge
Control its members
Defend against enemies
Produce and exchange goods and services
Promote social unity

Ideal Type

Like a stereotype without negative connotations (let us know how much real life versions diff from ideal)
-Ideal Family: Married with kids
-Ideal Bureaucracy: Series of levels

Habitualized Action

Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern

As a society grows in size and complexity, its institutions tend to become more?

Specialized

Hidden Curriculum

Messages communicated to students about things other than writing, and math
-Teaches students unspoken lessins about race, class, and gender
Ex: Calling on boys more than girls

"Tuck in the Shirt"

Represents connections among dress, behavior, and discipline that composed a primary, but unofficial emphasis at school
-Easy way for teachers to assert their authority

Reproduction Theory

Schools tend to reproduce and exaggerate inequalities of race, class and gender
-Schools not concerned w dress and manners of all students in the same way (disciplinary actions differed according to perceptions of race and class)

3 forms of disciplinary focus

1. Concerned w lady like behavior ( ecspec with Black girls)
2. Concerned with threatening and oppositional behavior and dress ( Black and Latino Boys)
3. School officials assumed some students (Whites and Asians) required little guidence

Dress code at Mathews was linked to...

-Behavior Issues
-Teaching students to be upwardly mobile
-Ensuring safe learning environment

Morris observed...

-Black girls lady like behavior
-Threating dress of black and latino boys
-Lack of discipline for asians and whites
-Disciplinary patterns evoked resistance from students

Matthews is ex of ____ and uniform is an ex of____

Social structure, institutionalized norm

Institutionalized value at Mathews would be....

"Act like a young lady"

Occupational socialization of Funeral direction involves____________ towards matters about which lay public feels anything but neutral

"Affective Neutrality"

Fundamental Problem of Secondary Socialization

it always presupposes a preceding process of primary socialization

Cahill Studied

-Attended classes
-Informal Convos w students
-Formal student interviews
*Didn't witness embalming

Fear of Death (Is/Is Not?) an institutionalized value

NOT

What statuses are Funeral Directors + Mortuary Science Student?

Institutionalized Statuses

"Get used to the bad smells from corpses" is...

Institutionalized value

Grief is a ____ held by relatives, while ____"detached concern is the____ of the mortician

Value, Institutionalized Value

1. Monarchy 2. Aristocracy 3. Tyranny 4. Theocracy

1. King or queen
2.Ruled b best few
3. Absolute leaders
4. Rule b God

1. Animism 2. Monotheism 3. Polytheism

1. Life force exists in all living beings
2. Single supernatural being
3. Man Gods

1. Monogamous 2. Polygamous

1. One husband one wife
2. Polygyny: one husband man wife Polyandry: One wife man husband

Social Self

Organized complex of attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors w an individual

Charles H Cooley

Social self arises through interaction with others
-Looking glass selves : How other people see you

George H Mead

Self Actualization involves the "Me" and the "I"
-Me: What you think people think of you
-I: What is uniquely you

Simple Imitative Behaviors

Child playing in a variety of roles

Games diff then play (games have rules)

Agents of Socialization

1.Family
2. School
3.Peers
4.Work place
5. Mass media

Rites of Passage

Ceremonies or rituals that mark important transition from status to status

Total Institutions

Orgs. where intense socializations takes place
*Place of residence or work where a large number of people are cut off from society and live a closed life.
Ex: Hospital Prison

Re-socialization

-Take away self and give a new one (Goal of total institutions)
Ex: Marines (Degradation-1st step, stripping a person of themselves)

Socialization`

Process by which people acquire cultural competency and through which society perpetuates the fundamental nature of existing social structures

anticipatory socialization

Anticipating what social status one will have?

About this deck

By: Bill Modi
Textbook:

The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology
Created: 2010-10-14
Size: 60 flashcards
Views: 51

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