Social Groups and Formal Organization/ Social stratification
Social Stratification
100
the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group, the knowledge, skills,attitudes, values, norms and actions thought appropriate for them
What is Socialization
100
People and groups that influence our orientation to life our self concept, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors. Includes family, neighborhood, daycare, religion, school and peer groups, and the workplace.
What is Agents of Socialization.
100
1. People who think of themselves as belonging together and who interact with one another, are the essence of society. 2. People who temporarily share the same physical space but who see themselves as belong together. 3. A statistic people who share similar characteristics. 4. Refers to people who are linked to one another.
What is 1. groups 2. aggregates 3. category 4. social network
100
Dysfunctions. 1. sometimes rules can defy all logic 2.treating employees as if they are objects instead of the people that they are 3. after a goal has been achieved and there is no reason to continues it does anyway
What is 1. Red tape 2. Alienation 3. Goal Displacement
100
Theories of the origins of global stratification 1. stresses that the countries that industrialized first got the jump on the rest of the world. Purpose was to establish economic colonies to exploit the nation's people and resources for the benefit of the mother country. 2. industrialization led to four groups of nations, first group consists of core nations which grew rich and powerful, semiperiphery dependent on trade with the core nations, periphery sold cash crops to the core nations, left out of the development of capitalism 3. a way of life that perpetuates poverty from one generation to the next.
What is 1. Colonialism theory 2. Wallerstein's world system theory 3. Culture poverty
200
Our sense develops from interaction with others. Contains three elements. 1.we imagine how we appear to those around us. 2. we interpret others' reactions. 3. We develop a self concept.
What is Cooley and the looking glass self.
200
Parents that are heavy handed and controlling when it comes to their kids, rarely communicate, want kids to respect authority, be quiet, listen. Consequences of this parenting children challenge authority, don't perform well on exams, tend not to have close friendships.
What is authoritarian.
200
1. groups toward which we feel loyalty towards 2. groups toward which we feel antagonism.
What is 1. in groups 2. outgroups
200
A system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative property, power and prestige
What is Social Stratification
200
Property(wealth) -ownership is no the only significant aspects or property some people control means of production but do not own them, Power- ability to control others even their own objections, prestige can be turned into power. Prestige- derived from property and power.
What is Weber's theory of class, statue and power.
300
Taking the role of others, significant others, generalized, imitation, play, team games, I and Me are all subcategories of what theory.
What is Mead's theory of role taking and the self.
300
Parents that do not set rules, place few demands on their children, don't demand responsibility for their children's action, ignore child's behavior. These children tend to act out, have poor attendance, don't follow rules, have very few friends, don't have sympathetic response to other children needs.
What is Permissive.
300
1. Conflict between groups by strengthening group consciousness and awareness of separateness from other groups. 2. refers to the collective tunnel vision that group members sometime develop in any group where the authority structure what happens over time is if the leader speaks first everybody. 3.leader speaks usually sit member's in a circle to represent equality and everybody had to give a new idea unrelated to the other ideas, there is no bad ideas.
What is 1. Social conflict and boundary behavior 2. groupthink and tunnel vision 3. brainstorming techniques
300
Strategy of society is inevitable. Society must make certain that its positions are filled, some positions filled are more important than other, the most important positions must be filled by the more qualified people, to motivate the more qualified people to fill these positions, society must offer them greater rewards.
What is Functionalist theory of stratification: Davis and Moore.
300
A large group of people who rank close to another in wealth, prestige and power, according to Marx one of two groups capitalist who owns the means of production or workers who sell their labor.
What is Weber;s definition of social class.
400
How much of a person's characteristics come are heredity and how much from social environment.
What is Nature vs. Nurture
400
Most effective style of parenting, parents take responsibility , give children discipline, have clear and simple rules for their children, high expectations for children but they are achievable.
What is authoritarian.
400
Leadership styles and their results. 1. one who give orders, results: grow dependent on their leader and show a high degree of internal solidarity become aggressive or apathetic, aggressive people grow hostile toward their leader. 2. One who tries to gain a consensus Results: friendlier and look to one another for mutual approval will continue to work even when boss leaves room. 3. High permissive Results: ask more questions, lack of achievement.
What is 1. authoritarian, democratic, laissez fair
400
Different story with societies that accumulate surpluses, groups fight over surpluses and the group that wins becomes an elite.
What is Lenski's synthesis of functionalism and conflict theory.
400
An economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individuals or family economic and social position in relation to others based on income, education and occupation.
What is Socioeconomic status
500
These children have difficulty establishing close bonds with others, and have low IQ scores.
What is characteristics of children raised in institutions.
500
Refers to a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and where they come under almost total control of officials.
What is Total institutions.
500
1. Social groups characterized by a hierarchy Characteristics of bureaucracies 2. each worker has a specific task to fulfill and all the tasks are coordinated to accomplish the purpose of the organization. 3. stressing written procedures 4. office is important not the individuals who holds the office
What is 1. bureaucracy 2. division of labor 3. written rule, 4. impersonality and replaceability
500
Elite Strategies for maintaining strategies 1. forcing lower class people to do something that they don't want to. 2. beliefs that justify the way things are 3. elite control information to muffle criticism they imprison, torture and kill people. Give elite powerful tools for monitoring citizen. 4. internet makes it hard for elite to control information
What is 1. using force 2. using ideas and ideology 3. controlling information and using technologies 4. maintaining exclusionary social networks
500
Form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people 2. the values, norms and other orientations that characterize corporate work settings.
What is law of Oligarchy 2. American Corporate Culture