Status
Experiments
Groups
Socialization
100
A position that strongly affects most other aspects of a person’s life
What is master status?
100

social-psychologist behind the "obedience studies"

Stanley Milgram

100
People who know each other well, are emotionally close, seek one another’s company
What are primary groups?
100

Refers to a proposed way of testing the prevalence of nature vs. nurture, but would be highly unethical

The Forbidden Experiment

200
All of the statuses that a person occupies at any particular time
What is Status Set?
200
the social-psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment
Who is Phil Zimbardo?
200
People who share only part of their lives while working toward a common goal or task
What are secondary groups?
200

refers to the factors in society that are responsible for shaping how an individual is socialized

Agents of Socialization

300
Daughter, son, sister, brother
What is ascribed status?
300

Used monkeys to study the impact of social isolation

Harry Harlow

300
Groups used for self-evaluation and the formation of attitudes, values, beliefs, norms
What are reference groups?
300

He proposed stages of childhood development that range from imitation, play, game and generalized other stages

George H. Mead

400
Wife, mother, author, church choir director
What is status set?
400

Social Psychologist behind the Robber's Cave experiment

Muzafir Sherif

400
People temporarily in the same place at the same time
What is a Social Aggregate?
400

This term refers to places where the people in charge have total control over the people under their care

Total Institutions

500
Class president
What is achieved status?
500

Iowa School teacher who developed and implemented the brown eyes/blue eyes exercise

Jane Elliot

500
people who share a single social characteristic
What is a Social Category?
500

This sociologist famously wrote about total institutions in his book "Asylums"

Erving Goffman

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