Status
Status that is given not earned
What is ascribed status?
How we learn who's got the power in the room
What is structure
When humans naturally separate themselves into social groups
What is stratification?
An expected behavior associated with status
What is a role?
50,000 years ago humans began decorating their graves
What is the being of belief, spirituality, and /or religion?
A visible external symbol of status is
What is status symbol?
Karl Marx saw society based on these two social groups.
What are owners and workers?
The natural way humans separate into perceived classes.
What is stratification?
When we try to fulfill to many roles at the same time.
What is role conflict?
This was formed to meet the basic needs of society
What is social institutions?
This status is more flexible and upwardly mobile
What is achieved status?
How we view or perceive a social situation, helps us to "fit in".
What is a social structure?
Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in 1831 to investigate this.
What was how the "American experiment" was progressing.
A number of interrelated roles that must be performed for society to function properly.
What is a role set?
Humans are genetically-engineered to have a spiritual connection
What is the God-gene?
This status is based on being a member of a group.
What is master status?
These famous social structure are. (3)
What are family, government, education, social, and / or business (economics)
Tocqueville believed the two freedoms or rights Americans had that he wished the French people had was
What is the right to assemble and freedom of the press?
Being careful when choosing a role model
What is the few true role models in society?
When we fulfill to many roles at the same time.
What is role conflict?
The separate but equal doctrine, set up by this Supreme Court case.
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
A mental representation of our world instead of a social representation
What is a cognitive map?
These were Tocqueville's biggest concerns (2) and could cause America to fail
What is when people give up freedoms and their free will to an authoritarian govt. and being focused on material comforts (materialism)?
Expectations of one role prevents completion of another role
What is role strain?
Tocqueville warned Americans to.
What is Americans becoming so comfortable they sacrifice their free will for comfort?