Social interactions

Question 1

What is status?

Answer 1

1. Defined by a person’s social position in society
   
   1. Ascribe statuses: status that can’t change
   2. Achieve status: status you earn yourself after working for it

Question 2

What is role strain and role conflict?

Answer 2

1. Role strain: tension within one status, when you can’t do all the things that a certain status demands.
2. Role conflict: conflict between two different statuses, arise

Question 3

Primary vs secondary groups

Answer 3

1. Primary: provide anchor point, they are close members of the group to you. (family)
2. Secondary groups: formal and business like relationships ( co-workers)

Question 4

What is dramaturgical approach?

Answer 4

1. In this approach, Goffman mention that people pay a lot of attention to how they want to be seen via dramaturgy ( acting)

2 Parts of Dramatury

1. Front stage: manipulating how you are seen to make friends
2. Back stage: the private part of our lives

Question 5

What is impressoin management?

Answer 5

• Impression management: when we try to control how people see our front stage acting
• Backstage: where most people work on impression management

Question 6

Discrimination - individual vs. institutional

Answer 6

what is discrimination: harmful treatments against minorities

1. Individual discrimination: done at the individual level
2. Institutional: done by the government or banks etc..

Question 7

What is unintentional discrimination?

Answer 7

• Some policies can discriminate unintentionally
  
  • Side-effect discrimination: one institution can influence another negatively
• Past-In-Present: how things done in the past can affect people in the present

Question 8

What are organization and bureaucratizations

Answer 8

1. Organizations: organization made for a specific purspoe which try and achieve maximum efficiency
   
   1. Utilitarian: members are paid for their efforts
   2. Normative organizations: come through shared goals
   3. Coercive: members don’t have a choice over their membership
2. Bureaucratization: how an organization is ran by law and policy
   
   1. Iron rule of oligarchy: even democratic organization become more bureaucratic over time to keep order and end up being govern by a few because leaders do not want to give power over time.
   2. Mcdonaldization: the way fast food are ran has come to dominate everything overtime.
      
      1. efficiency
      2. calculability
      3. predictability
      4. control

Question 9

What is Ideal bureaucracy?

Answer 9

• Max weber is the psychologist
• he says that there are 5 main characteristic of an Bureaucracy

1. Division of labour: people assigned specific tasks
   
   1. increase alienation
2. Hierarchy of organization: each position is under supervision of hireauthority
   
   1. decrease autonomy
3. written rules and regulation
   
   1. decrease creativity but clarify expectations
4. Impersonality: unbias in activity conduction
   
   1. alienation and discourage loyalty
5. Employement based on technical qualifications: they hire based on your qualifications