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- Suicide because ties to group too great
- Altruistic suicide
- Suicide b/c disruption. People feel hopeless
- Anomic suicide
- Suicide bc indv emphasized over group
- Egoistic suicide
- Res. Technique that compares stats and historical records to test theory
- Comparative method
- Group
- Set of people who interact more or less regularly. Conscious of ID as unit
- Organization
- Large complex network of positions created for specific purpose and characterized by hierarchical division of labor
- Role
- Set of expectations associated with particular status
- Content Anaylsis
- Studies of recorded messages
- Reactivity
- The problem you get when you intrude into peoples lives and affect the experiment
- Culture
- Shard, taken-for-granted values, beliefs, objects and rules that guide people's life
- Value
- Standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcomes
- Norms
- Defined rules of conduct
- Nonmaterial Culture
- Nonphysical products of a society created over time and shared: Ex: Knowledge, beliefs, customs...
- Material Culture
- Physical artifacts that shape or reflect the lives of members of a particular society
- Heteronormative Culture
- Herterosexuality norm and they tend to be socially priviledged
- Sanction
- Direct social response to some behavior
- Mores
- Norms which are taken very seriously by society
- Folkways
- Norms that have minor consequences
- Sick rule
- Widely understood set of rules about how people are supposed to behave when sick
- Institutionalized norms
- When a pattern of behavior becomes widely accepted within a particular social institution and taken for granted in society (Slavery)
- Transexuals &Intersexuals
- People who ID with a diff sex. Inter: Sexual dist. unclear
- Eugenic
- Controlled mating that attempts to ensure "defective" genes not passed on to future generations
- Anticipatory Socialization
- Young indv socialized in a way that will be useful in social statuses
- Looking glass self
- We use the reactions of others towards us as mirrors in which we see ourselves and det self worth
- Game stage
- Occurs when in organized activities. Begin to realize organization of roles
- Individualist & Collectivist culture
- Indv: Personal accomp key part of person's self concept
- Impression Management
- The process by which people attempt to present a favorable image of themselves
- Impression formation
- Immediate impression formed based on cues (social, age, race, class (after a time))
- Dramaturgy
- Analyzing social interactions as a series of theatrical performances
- Performance team
- Those individuals who intimately cooperate in staging a perf. Leads audience to form impression of one or all the members
- Aligning action
- Action to remedy situation. Ex: Apology
- Account
- Verbal statement to explain embarrassing behavior
- Disclaimer
- Assertion given before facts to forestall complaints
- Cooling out
- Gently persudating someone oto accept less desireable but still reasonable ID
- Stigma
- Permanent spoiling of someone's ID. Based on body, character, or memebership
- Exogamy/Endogamy
- outside group/inside group
- Family
- Two or more peresons who are related by birth adoption or marriage who live together in one household
- Neolocal residence
- Married couple expected to est. households sep from fam
- Absolute poverty
- Can't afford healthy existence
- Competitive individualism
- Those who succeed= those that work hardest
- False consciousness
- Lower classes come to accept belief system that harms them
- Poor
- Group that work for minimum wage or are chronically unemployed
- Dist b/w social class and socioeconomic status
- Social class just about econ position. Socioeconomicstatus takes into account other factors like prestige
- Panethic labels
- Terms applied to diverse subgroups assumed to have something in common
- Ethnicity
- Sense of community that derives from the cultural heritage shared by a category of people w/ common ancestry
- Colorism
- Skin color prejudice w/in ethno-racial group
- Prejudice
- Rigidly held, unfavorable attitudes, beliefs, about members of a diff group based on social characterisitc
- Discrimination
- Unfair treatment based
- Pay Equity
- Men and women of perform jobs of equal value to society and that req. equal training ought to be paid equally.