Chapter 4

Question 1

Macrosociolgy

Answer 1

broad features of comity , econ, recessions, enviro, war, functionalism and war

Question 2

Microsociolgy

Answer 2

analysis of social life, focus on social interaction, symbolic

Question 3

social interaction

Answer 3

ways people interact, face to face, dating, martial quality

Question 4

Social structure

Answer 4

typical patterns of a group, gives direction to sets limits on behavior, its the framework
this overrides personal feelings

Question 5

social class

Answer 5

consists of large numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and education who work the same job

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

framework determines what kind of person we become

Question 7

Major components of social structure

Answer 7

culture, roles, social class, groups and social status

Question 8

social status

Answer 8

is the position one occupies in society or in a social group

Question 9

status symbols

Answer 9

items used to identity a status

Question 10

master status

Answer 10

cuts across other statuses that you hold and is primary relative to other statuses (race, sex, disabled)

Question 11

status set

Answer 11

all the status or positions you hold

Question 12

status inconsistency

Answer 12

contradiction or mismatch between status

Question 13

roles

Answer 13

behaviors, obligations and privileges attached to a status

Question 14

groups

Answer 14

people who regularly and consciously interact with one another

Question 15

involuntary

Answer 15

groups that offer little option to belong

Question 16

voluntary

Answer 16

we choose to belong

Question 17

Social institutions

Answer 17

ways that society develops to meet basic needs

Question 18

Functional

Answer 18

replace members, socialize new, produce and distribute goods, persevere social orders, provide a purpose

Question 19

Control

Answer 19

preserve social order to keep the powerful in their privileged positions, they manipulate to maintain power and wealth. media is controlled by them

Question 20

Social cohesion- Durkheim

Answer 20

societies are held together through in the form of mechanical solidarity

Question 21

mechanical solidarity- Durkheim

Answer 21

shared consciousness that people experiences as a result of performing the similar tasks

Question 22

Organic solidarity- Durkheim

Answer 22

interdependence brought about by the division of labor

Question 23

Gemeinschaft- Ferdinand Tonnis

Answer 23

society held together by intimate and sense of togetherness. tradition and others control them

Question 24

Gesellshaft- Ferdinand Tonnis

Answer 24

society by impersonal and short term relationships and self interests

Question 25

Stereotypes

Answer 25

simplified generalizations about people or things, often biased point of views about people or things.

Question 26

Dramaturgy

Answer 26

Erving Goffman, says that social life is like a drama on the stage, teaches us to learn to perform on the stage

Question 27

Front stage

Answer 27

perform given

Question 28

back stage

Answer 28

retreat and let our hair out

Question 29

Sign Vehicles

Answer 29

manner or appearance used to communicate

Question 30

Social setting

Answer 30

place where action takes place

Question 31

Manner

Answer 31

attitudes when playing roles

Question 32

Role strain

Answer 32

conflict one feels within the same role

Question 33

Role conflict

Answer 33

what is expected of us is incompatible with what is expected of us in another role

Question 34

Thomas Theorem

Answer 34

if people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences

Question 35

Social construction of reality

Answer 35

use of background assumptions and life experiences to define what is real

Question 36

Social institutions 2

Answer 36

family, education, religion, law, politics, economics, science, medicine, military and mass media