Roles/Status
The status an individual values most
What is master status?
A large, formal organization
What is bureaucracy?
Task based groups with less personal connections
What a secondary group?
Behaving in a way that socially acceptable
What is conformity?
Societies that do not have a permanent home
What is nomadic?
What is achieved status?
Individuals are trapped by rules of bureaucracies and institutions
What is iron cage?
Your closest and most meaningful relationships
What is primary group?
The more people who are present, the less likely help is offered
What is bystander effect?
Earliest type of society
What is hunter-gatherer?
A status that is beyond our control
What is ascribed status?
Principles of fast-food are dominating other organizations
What is McDonaldization?
Groups we compare and evaluate ourselves to
What is a reference group?
Asking for something small before making a larger request
What is foot-in-the-door?
Society based on services and information/technology
What is post-industrial?
Difficulty meeting the role expectations of a single status
What is Role Strain?
Society is built around logic and efficiency
What is rationalization?
Harmful behavior based on group membership
What is intergroup aggression?
Working harder on your own than in a group
What is social loafing?
Societies with permanent settlements that cultivated plants
What is horticultural?
Expectations of one status interfere with another status
What is role conflict?
Excessive bureaucratic rules and paperwork that create inefficiency
What is red tape?
Groups that demand loyalty and create barriers to keep others out
What are in-groups?
Using attention-getting ques or emotional appeals to persuade
What is peripheral route?
Type of status that became more important after industrialization.
What is achieved status?