Status and Roles
This is a socially defined position in a group or society
What is a status?
Working together to achieve a shared goal.
What is cooperation?
Societies classified by how they use technology to meet basic needs.
What are subsistence strategies?
What are primary groups?
A large, complex secondary group, established to achieve specific goals.
What is a formal organization?
A Student feels stressed because their teacher expects high grades, their coach expects performance, and their parents expect chores to be done.
What sociological concept explains this situation?
What is role strain?
This type of status is assigned at birth or beyond a person's control
What is achieved status?
When two or more people compete for a goal that only one can achieve .
What is competition?
Societies that rely on hunting wild animals and gathering plants.
What are hunter-gathering societies?
Large, goal -oriented, impersonal groups.
What are secondary groups?
Weber's term for dividing work among specialists
What is the division of labor?
A student works part-time and must choose between attending a shift or studying for a final exam. What concept explains this conflict?
What is role conflict
This type of status is earned through skills, effort, or achievement.
What is an achieved status?
The deliberate attempt to control or harm another person.
What is conflict?
Societies that emphasize the production of manufactured goods.
What are industrial societies?
A group you identifiy with and feel loyalty toward.
What is an in-group?
A ranked authority structure operating according to specific rules.
What is bureaucracy?
In a small farming village, everyone shares similar values, performs similar tasks, and relies on tradition. What type of solidarity best describes this society?
This occurs when expectations of one status interfere with another status.
What is a role conflict?
What is exchange?
Societies that focus on information and service-based economies.
What are postindustrial societies?
A group whose values yo adopt and use as a standard for behavior.
What is a reference group?
The tendency of organizations to be dominated by a small group at the top
What is the iron law of oligarchy?
A large corporation shifts from customer service to paperwork and internal procedures. What bureaucratic weakness is occurring?
What is goal displacement?
This Process of detaching from a role central to one's identitiy?
What is role exit?
This state of balances cooperation and conflict and helps maintain stability.
What is accommodation?
Durkheim's term for close- knit relationships in preindustrial societies.
What is mechanical solidarity?
A group of two people
What is a dyad
When bureaucracies abandon thier original purpose.
What is goal displacement?
In a school club, one small group of senior members begins controlling all decisions ans excluding newer members from leadership opportunities. What concept best explains this shift in power?
What is the iron law of oligarchy?