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Grade 12 Sociology
Positions an individual either inherits at birth or receives involuntarily later in life
  1. Achieved Status
  2. Ascribed Status
  3. Role
  4. Social Integration
Grade 12 Sociology
The splitting of a group's or society's tasks into specialities
  1. Functional requisites
  2. Social Integration
  3. Division of Labor
  4. Role Performance
Grade 12 Sociology
A type of society dominated by impersoanl relationships, individual accomplishments, and self-interest
  1. Functional Requisites
  2. Gemainschaft
  3. Gesellschaft
  4. Organic Solidarity
Grade 12 Sociology
A contradiction or mismatch between statuses
  1. Status
  2. Role Conflict
  3. Role Strain
  4. Status Inconsistency
Grade 12 Sociology
The major tasks that a society must fulfill if it is to survive
  1. Functional Requisites
  2. Social Institution
  3. Social Structure
  4. Teamwork
Grade 12 Sociology
Deeply imbedded common understandings, or basic rules, concerning our view of the world and of how people ought to act
  1. Functional Requisites
  2. Impression Management
  3. Background Assumptions
  4. Social Class
Grade 12 Sociology
A study of how people use background assumptions to make sense of life
  1. Dramaturgy
  2. Gemeinschaft
  3. Gesellschaft
  4. Ethnomethodology
Grade 12 Sociology
A status that cuts across the other statuses that an individual occupies
  1. Role
  2. Social Class
  3. Master Status
  4. Status symbols
Grade 12 Sociology
Where performances are given
  1. Back Stage
  2. Front Stage
  3. Role
  4. Group
Grade 12 Sociology
Researching the reactions and responses of college men to photographs of women, demonstrated how stereotypes tend to produce behaviors that match the stereotype
  1. Edward Hall
  2. Mark Snyder
  3. W.I. & Dorothy S. Thomas
  4. Ferdinand Tonnies
Grade 12 Sociology
A type of society in which life is intimate; a community in which everyone knows everyone else and people share a sense of togetherness
  1. Functional Requisites
  2. Gemeinschaft
  3. Gesellschaft
  4. Organic Solidarity
Grade 12 Sociology
Solidarity based on the interdependance brought about by the division of labor
  1. Organic Solidarity
  2. Mechanical Solidarity
  3. Macrosociology
  4. Microsociology
Grade 12 Sociology
Techniques used to salvage a performance that is going sour
  1. Impression Management
  2. Sign-vehicles
  3. Face-saving Behavior
  4. Organic Solidarity
Grade 12 Sociology
Developed dramaturgy
  1. William Chambliss
  2. Emile Durkheim
  3. Harold Garfinkle
  4. Erving Goffman
Grade 12 Sociology
Studying two groups of high schoolboys from both the macro-sociological perspective and micro-sociological perspective; Showed how social structure and social interaction shaped the boys' current and future behavioral patterns
  1. William Chambliss
  2. Emile Durkheim
  3. Harold Garfinkle
  4. Erving Goffman
Grade 12 Sociology
The process by which people's perception of reality define what is reality for them while using background assumptions and life experiences to define what is real to them
  1. The Social Construction of Reality
  2. Gemeinschaft
  3. Gesellschaft
  4. Status inconsistency
Grade 12 Sociology
An approach, pioneered by Erving Goffman, analyzing social life in terms of drama or the stage
  1. Gemeinschaft
  2. Gesellschaft
  3. Dramaturgy
  4. Ethnomethodology
Grade 12 Sociology
Coined the terms Gemeinschaft, and Gesellschaft to illustrate how, with industrialization, societies shift from intimate communities to large networks dominated by impersonal relationships,
  1. Edward Hall
  2. Mark Snyder
  3. W.I. & Dorothy S. Thomas
  4. Ferdinand Tonnies
Grade 12 Sociology
Is credited with the classic statement: "If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences"
  1. Edward Hall
  2. Mark Snyder
  3. W.I. & Dorothy S. Thomas
  4. Ferdinand Tonnies
Grade 12 Sociology
As the founder of ethnomethodology, he conducted experiments designed to uncover people's background assumption
  1. William Chambliss
  2. Emile Durkheim
  3. Harold Garfinkle
  4. Erving Goffman
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