A status that is given to a person at birth
Ascribed status
when people interact in an effort to receive a reward or a return for their actions.
exchange
Is being a student a Role?
Yes
what is a group of statuses and roles that are organized to satisfy one or more of the basic needs
Social institutions
what is a state of balance between cooperation and conflict?
Accommidation
A status they is worked for
Achieved status
the idea that if you do something for someone, that person owes you something in return.
Reciprocity
Is being a parent a role
Yes
An institution that ensures the transmission of values, patterns of behavior, and certain skills and knowledge.
Education
When each party gives up something they want in order to come to an agreement
Compromise
The status that plays the biggest role in ones life and can be ascribed or achieved
Master status
the idea that people are motivated by self-interest in their interactions with other people.
Exchange theory
the process people go through to detach from a role that was previously central to their social identity.
Role Exit
What is the most universal social institution
Family
when two or more parties temporarily brings a halt to the competition or conflict until a compromise can be reached.
Truce
When one status interferes with another status
Role conflict
occurs when two or more people or groups oppose each other
Competition
when fulfilling the role expectations of on status interferes with a second status.
Role conflict
organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods
economy
calling in a third party who guides the two parties toward an agreement Is called a what?
Mediation
What is status
a socially defined position
the deliberate attempt to control a person by force
Conflict
when a person has difficulty fulfilling the role of one status.
Role Strain
which institution provides a shared, collective explanation of the meaning of life.
Religion
A third party makes a decision that is binding on both parties is called a?
Arbitration