Attitudes
This theory says interacting with members of your out-group will likely result in reduced prejudice towards them.
What is social contact theory?
The sick role entails 2 rights: one is the right to be taken care of, and the other is the right to be
what is exempt from the responsibilities of normal social life?
This principle of attraction in relationships states that we are likely to form relationships with those who are nearby to us.
What is proximity?
Emotions, such as guilt, that are typically taught through socialization in childhood.
What are moral emotions?
Storytelling is one means of creating these beliefs, which can be used to spark social movements and other group actions.
What are collective memories?
Cognitive dissonance results when there is inconsistency between our attitudes and
What is behavior?
Mental hospitals represent this type of setting where individuals are isolated from the rest of society and conduct all aspects of their lives together, following the rules of that setting.
What is a total institution?
This theory says that we are likely to maintain those relationships in which we feel a balance of rewards and costs.
What is equity theory?
Guidelines that tell us what type of feelings it is appropriate to express in particular situations.
What are feeling rules?
Back in the 1970s, many of the anti-Vietnam war protests one college campuses were broken up by police and other authorities. This represents what form of crowd dispersal?
What is coerced dispersal?
Name one sociostructural characteristic that may influence a person's attitudes.
What is age, race, ethnicity, religion, education level, socioeconomic status, gender. . . .
In the stress process model, potential stress is initiated by either chronic stressors or
What is life events?
Empty love involves a high amount of only one element of love--which one?
What is commitment?
Who is allowed to express more negative emotion--someone holding greater status/power, or lower status/power?
What is greater status/power?
This theory of social movements says that for a movement to occur, you need the appropriate social conditions and adequate resources.
What is resource mobilization theory?
We are more likely to make generalized social judgments about members of our in-group or out-group?
What is out-group?
The film we watched in class showed how stress and illness can result for members of social groups that lack _____________in their environments and lives.
THEY ILLUSTRATED THIS WITH BOTH ANIMALS AND HUMANS
What is control?
This is the element of love that is found in good marriages, many family relationships, and even friendships that are short-term.
What is intimacy?
What is the missing primary emotion in this list of 6 universal emotions?
Anger, fear, sadness, happiness, disgust, ?
What is surprise?
ONE of the two factors speakers in the film noted as critical to social movements.
What is HOPE? or What is collective identity?
These are more stable and general views (than attitudes) that we hold, which are likely to guide our lives.
What are values?
These are an overarching influence on how the stress process model works.
What are the socio-economic characteristics of the person experiencing the stressor?
Internet relationships allow much greater control over presentation of __ __ __ __ than in-person social relationships.
What is S E L F?
According to Thoits, there are 4 dimensions to emotions. They:
1) are labeled; 2) work with situational cues; 3) are accompanied by physiological changes; and 4) include ?
What are expressive gestures?
This is the best predictor of someone participating in a collective action event--say a march, protest, etc.
What is being asked or invited to attend?