Status
What is a status?
A socially defined position in a group or in society.
What is a role?
The behavior expected of someone occupying a particular status.
What is reciprocity?
The idea that if you do something for someone, that person owes you something in return.
What does the family institution do?
Takes responsibility for raising the young and teaching theme accepted norms and values.
What concept did Max Weber develop?
Ideal type.
What is an achieved status?
A status acquired through their own efforts.
What is a role set?
The different roles attached to a single status.
What is competition?
When two or more people or groups oppose each other to achieve a goal that only one can attain.
What does the education institution do?
Ensures the transmission of values, patterns of behavior, and certain skills and knowledge.
Who coined "Survival of the Fittest"?
Herbert Spencer
What is an ascribed status?
A status assigned according to standards that are beyond their control. (Age, race, gender, etc)
What is role exit?
The process people go through to detach from a role that has been central to their self-identity.
What is cooperation?
When two or more people or groups work together to achieve a goal that will benefit more than one person.
What does the religion institution do?
Provides a shared, collective explanation of the meaning of life.
Who is considered the founder of sociology?
Auguste Comte.
What is a master status?
The status that plays the greatest role in shaping a person's life.
What is role conflict?
When fulfilling the role expectations of one status makes it difficult to fulfill the role expectations of another status.
What's accommodation?
A state of balance between conflict and cooperation.
What does the economic institution do?
Organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
What was Spencer's view of society called?
Social Darwinism
Is a master status an ascribed or achieved status?
Both.
What is role strain?
When a person has difficulty meeting the role expectations of a single status.
What is the exchange theory?
A theory that people are motivated by self-interests in their interactions with others.
What does the political institution do?
The system of norms that governs the exercise and distribution of power in society.
Who created the principle of Verstehen?
Max Weber