Status
A status assigned at birth?
Ascribed Status
Occurs when competing demands are made on someone with two or more roles?
Role Conflict
Unwritten rules about how to behave in social situations?
Social Norms
The primary social institution responsible for socializing children?
Family
Known for his conflict theory, focusing on class struggle?
Karl Marx
A status you earn through effort?
Achieved Status
Occurs when competing demands are made on someone with two or more roles?
Role Strain
A theory that examines society through the meanings individuals assign to interactions?
Symbolic Interactionism
An institution that transmits knowledge and skills across generations?
Education
Developed the concept of bureaucracy and rationalization?
Max Weber
A dominant status that overshadows others?
Master Status
The process of disengaging from a role central to one’s identity?
Role Exit
Direct social contact between individuals in a shared space?
Face-to-Face Interaction
A social institution that addresses beliefs and practices around the sacred?
Religion
Pioneered the study of social integration and collective conscience?
Emile Durkheim
All the statuses an individual occupies at once?
Status set
How someone plays out a role in a particular situation?
Role Performance
Erving Goffman’s theory of social life as a performance?
Dramaturgical Approach
The institution that manages the production and distribution of goods and services?
Economy
Known for his work on symbolic interactionism and the development of the self?
George Herbert Mead
When different statuses conflict?
Status Inconsistency
Social norms dictating how one should behave in a particular role?
Role Expectations
Efforts to control how others perceive us?
Impression Management
The institution responsible for making and enforcing laws?
Government
Known for his theory of dramaturgy and the concept of front-stage and back-stage behavior?
Erving Goffman