Social Structure and the Individual

Question 1

what is a social institution?

Answer 1

a complex set of norms that fufill a society’s needs and purposes

Question 2

what are formal rules?

Answer 2

offical rules and regulations

Question 3

what are informal rules?

Answer 3

unwritten rules

Question 4

what are constraining functions?

Answer 4

functions that limit/restrict individuals

Question 5

what are enabling functions?

Answer 5

functions that promote individuals to behave a certain way

Question 6

what is status?

Answer 6

the social position of an individual within a group or society

Question 7

what is ascribed status?

Answer 7

the status that you are born into based on the things that you are born with

Question 8

what is achieved status?

Answer 8

the aquired status through ones efforts, choices, and accomplishments

Question 9

what is a role?

Answer 9

behaviors, obligations, and privledges that are attached to a status

Question 10

what are formal roles?

Answer 10

defined roles that are structured by laws, policies, and organization guidelines

Question 11

what are informal roles?

Answer 11

unwritten roles

Question 12

what is master status?

Answer 12

the most prominent role in one’s identity, takes precedence over other roles one may have

Question 13

what is role conflict?

Answer 13

clashes of expectations due to having multiple roles

Question 13

what is a group?

Answer 13

a collective of individuals

Question 14

what is a primary group?

Answer 14

small, intimate groups charecterized by long term emotional relationships

Question 15

what are secondary groups?

Answer 15

larger groups based on shared interests or activities and not emotional relationships

Question 16

what are reference groups?

Answer 16

groups used to evalutate your own group

Question 17

what is the in-group

Answer 17

the group to where a person feels loyal to the group

Question 18

what is the outgroup?

Answer 18

the group where the individual does not feel like they belong

Question 19

what are social networks?

Answer 19

set of relationships between members of a social system

Question 20

what is a dyad?

Answer 20

a two person group

Question 21

what is a triad?

Answer 21

a three person group

Question 22

what is socialization?

Answer 22

the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society

Question 23

what is the development of self?

Answer 23

the self is not inherent at birth but develops over time

Question 24

what is the social nature of self?

Answer 24

the self is a product of symbolic interaction within a social context

Question 25

what is the looking glass self?

Answer 25

the self is formed and continuously reshaped through our social interactions and the perceptions we believe others have for us

Question 26

what is gender socialization?

Answer 26

the process by which individuals learn and internalize the roles, norms, behaviors, and expectations associated with their assigned gender in a given society

Question 27

what is race socialization?

Answer 27

the process by which individuals learn about the social meanings, symbols, an values associated with racial and ethic identities