Status
A status that one is born with can be described as...
What is an ascribed status?
The actual behaviour in a particular role
What is Role Performance?
People who share part of their lives while working on a specific task
What is a secondary group?
groups making war against each other over possession of resources
What is conflict?
organized patterns of beliefs and behaviour centered on basic social needs
What are institutions?
Being a high school graduate is this kind of status
What is achieved status?
This is the most significant influence over a role
What is status?
These groups consist of a small number of people who know each other well, are emotionally close, have regular contact and share similar values, beliefs, goals, etc
What are primary groups?
Survivors of a plane-crash working together for survival
What is cooperation?
Iowa elementary school teacher who introduced the Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes experiment in her classroom to teach about discrimination
Who is Jane Elliott?
This term refers to the many statuses that one can hold at a single time
What is Status Set?
If status is like the parts in play, role would be like...
the script
Not a group, but described as people who share a common social characteristic
What is a social category?
A web of relationships that join an individual to numerous other individuals and/or groups.
What is a social network?
This term describes a status that overshadows any of the other statuses one may hold
What is Master Status?
When the performance of a role in one status interferes with the performance of a role in a different status
What is Role Conflict?
Not quite a group, described as people temporarily in the same place at the same time
What is Social Aggregate?
Professor at Standford University who conducted the infamous prison simulation to learn about the influence of status and groups as well as environment over an individual's behaviour
Who is Phillip Zimbardo?
In society some status can lead to discrimination, adversely other status can lead to this...
What is privilege?
A condition in which the roles of a single status are inconsistent, conflicting or overwhelming
What is Role Strain?
An exclusive group that demands intense loyalty from its members. Cliquey.
What is an In Group?
Professor at Yale who conducted obedience studies seeing how far subjects would go in shocking a person when instructed by a person in a position of authority
Who is Stanley Milgram?