Social Structure

Question 1

3 types of statuses

Answer 1

achieved = had to work to attain 
ascribed = thrust upon someone ex. race
master = overshadows others

Question 2

role strain vs role conflict

Answer 2

competing demands within a role vs with separate roles

Question 3

role exit

Answer 3

process of disengaging from a role

Question 4

primary vs secondary groups

Answer 4

long lasting deep bonds (doesn’t meant positive) vs short lasting superficial

Question 5

peer groups

Answer 5

self selected

likely similar

Question 6

in groups

Answer 6

people we identify with

Question 7

3 types of organizations

Answer 7

coercive = must join ex. jail
normative = shared ideas ex. church group
utilitarian = for money ex. job

Question 8

what is a bureaucracy like

Answer 8

hierarchal structure, well defined roles, predictable career path, politicaly neutral

Question 9

what is the idea of functionalism by durkheim

different types of functions

Answer 9

components of society all perform a function and work together as a whole
manifest - intented
latent - hidden
dysfunctions - harmful

Question 10

what is the conflict theory by marx

Answer 10

social groups compete for RESOURCES

focus on power difference and social inequality

Question 11

rational choice theory

Answer 11

people choose actions to achieve preferences based on pros and cons in a way that satisfies preferences or goals
ACTIONS focuses on how people make choices

Question 12

social exchange theory.

Answer 12

social interactions as exchanges with costs and benefits
focuses on actual interactions
you invest time in a friendship because in return you get benefits like support

Question 13

stratification

Answer 13

division of society into layers of socioeconomic status

Question 14

capitalism

Answer 14

privately owned property and companies

Question 15

socialism

Answer 15

collective ownership, private property

Question 16

communism

Answer 16

no private ownership

Question 17

social constructionism vs symbolic interactionism

Answer 17

construct is more macro and how we construct symbols such as holidays
interact is more micro and just people interacting with each other

Question 18

medicalization

Answer 18

social construction of illness

ex addiction now a disease not a failure

Question 19

paternalism

Answer 19

doctor making patients decision without giving them much info or input much like parents make their kids choices for them

Question 20

epidemiology is interested in

Answer 20

patterns of illness in a population

Question 21

what is social epidemiology

Answer 21

focuses on how social factors contribute to illness and health

Question 22

difference between a church, sect, and cult

Answer 22

church - socially acceptable
cult - not seen by society as socially acceptable
sect - I forget

Question 23

difference between cultural transmission and diffusion

Answer 23

transmission is to another individual such as teaching someone how to make sushi
diffusion is when a culture is seen in a different countries such as Chinese food now being available in Canada

Question 24

cultural lag

Answer 24

culture lags behind technology

ex . people in government not using emails yet

Question 25

ethnocentrism vs cultural relativism

Answer 25

ethno - judge people based on their culture ex. Chinese people are weird for eating dogs
relativism - Chinese people eat dogs like we eat cows

Question 26

difference between biomedical approach and medicalization

Answer 26

biomedical would be like you have this going on so you need this med
medicalization is like you have ADHD which is now considered a disorder that we will treat with pills when before it was just considered how a kid was

Question 27

define social constructionism

Answer 27

everything that people know is due to social constructs

so what we know about female gender is all socially learned