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What is a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of a society for a period of time and are subject to tight control
What is a total institution?
The experiment to see how far people would go due to their roles.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment
the behaviour expected of an individual who occupies a given social position or status
What is a role?
focuses on shared symbolic meanings between individuals
What is symbolic interactionism?
awareness of the relationship between a person's experience and the wider culture which shapes the person's choices and perceptions
Social interaction is like a drama being preformed
What is dramaturgy?
The experiment was designed to test how people will conform due to social pressure .
a rank or position that someone holds
What is a status?
set of interrelated parts
data that is descriptive and not quantifiable
What is qualitative data?
A group of two or more people who identify with and interact with one another .
What is social group?
The experiment was designed to see how much authority affects someone's decision.
What is the Milgram Obedience Experiment ?
status that is earned based on merit;
What is Achieved status
focuses on competition and social change
What is conflict perspective?
level of analysis that focuses on large groups and societies
What is macro level analysis?
The process one goes through to detach from a role that has been essential to his/her identity.
What is Role Exit ?
This experiment took place at Yale University.
What is the Milgram Obedience Experiment?
Stress someone may feel if too much is required of a single role
What is Role strain
This perspective would focus on the inequality that exists between the sexes.
What is conflict perspective?
What is operationalizing a variable?
The Web of relationships across groups that occurs because of the many groups people belong to.
What is Social Networks?
What increases conformity?
Judge discretion.
how a person expresses his or her role
What is Role performance?
Sports provide jobs, entertainment and a source of fitness for millions of people in the United States.
What is functionalist perspective?
What is the Hawthrone Effect?