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Sociology 201

Terms

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Statuses
A position within a group or society
Roles
a set of expectations that define the behavior people view as appropriate and innapproriate for the occupant of a status
Role Strain
The situation in which individuals find the expectations of a single role incompatable, so they have difficulty performing the role
Role Conflict
When confronted with conflicting expectations stemming from two or more statuses
Newcomb's Study of Bennington-- Findings/ reference group theory
When the conservative women were put into a liberal reference group, they too turned liberal because of the attitudes and beliefs that surrounded them.
Zimbardo's study of the prison; Milgrams study of obedience-- What were the main findings?
Zimbardo found that when people were put into roles, they would act the steriotype of that role, Milgram found that ordinary people readily behave in morally questionable ways in the name of conformity and obedience.
Dyad
a group of two people
Triad
a group of 3 people
Why is a triad so important in changing the nature of social interactions?
the phrase "3 is a crowd."in decisions, you still have a chance at a dyad if one strays.
Bureaucracies: why it took so long to develope?
It didnt really come full fledged until during the industrial revolution when business' were becoming too big to control at a face to face stance. more structure was needed at that time. before then it was needed because most bussiness' were small and managable
Parkinson's 2 Laws and what do they do to bureaucracies?
1) The amount of work will expand and contrast depending on the amount of time assigned 2) the cost of an item will increase or decrease based on the amount budgeted for it. this is the ways in which bureaucracies are inefficient. these are the two main problems with the idea of bureaucracy.
Feral Children: the story of isabella.. what does it show us about the need for language and interaction?
Lack of interaction and language has been proved to inactivate parts of the brain that control that. children being brought back to be civilized have to about age 12 to learn to speak a language. if they dont, they loose the chance for communication.
Meads Development of the self term: Play
Take role of one person at a time and "try on" persons behavior i.e. child pretending to be mother
Meads Development of the self term: Game
Takes on the Role of multiple people must know expectations
Meads Development of the self term: generalized other stages
Attitude of larger community, gives individual unity of self.
Cooleys Looking glass self
process by which we imaginatively assume the stance of other people and view ourselves as we believe they see us.
Goffman's ideas of resocialization: 3 process step: Total institution
A place in which individuals are kept in total isolation from society for an amount of time and behavior is regimented
Goffman's ideas of resocialization: 3 process step: Mortification of self
Seperated from family, friends and environment that provide support of the Old ways.
Goffman's ideas of resocialization: 3 process step: Reward System
Reward individual when they do something that is correct.

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