Roles
What is a role?
The behavior expected of someone occupying a particular status.
What is status?
A socially defined position in a group or in a society.
Describe social structure.
The network of interrelated statuses and roles that guide humans interaction.
Describe social institution.
When statuses and roles are organized to satisfy one or more of the basic needs of society.
Name and explain a type of social interaction.
Exchange. It is whenever people interact in an effort to receive a reward or a return for their actions.
Describe a role set.
The different roles attached to a single status.
What 3 types of statuses are there?
Ascribed, Achieved, and master.
Name 2 types of social structure.
Role and status
Family and education
Name 3 types of social interactions.
Reciprocity, competition, and conflict.
What is role conflict?
Fulfilling the role expectations of one status makes it difficult to fulfill the role expectations of another status.
What is ascribed status?
Status assigned according to qualities beyond a persons control.
What is and example of ascribed status?
Race
Why is family a social institution?
It takes responsibility for raising the young and teaching them accepted norms and values.
What is conflict?
The deliberate attempt to control a person by force, to oppose someone, or to harm another person.
What is role strain?
When a person has difficulty meeting the role expectations of a single status.
Describe achieved status.
Status acquired through ones own efforts.
What is an example of achieved status?
Becoming CEO at your job.
Name all 5 social institutions.
Family, the economic institution, the political institution, education, and religion.
What is reciprocity?
The idea that if you do something for someone, that person owes you something in return.
Describe role exit.
Where role performance does not match expectations.
What is Master status?
Plays the greatest role in shaping a person's life and determining his or her social identity.
What is an example of master status?
Being a student.
Why is education a social institution?
It ensures the transmission of values, patterns of behavior, and certain skills and knowledge.
What is competition?
When two or more people or groups oppose each other to achieve a goal that only one can attain.