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Social Studies - World Scholars Cup
Exam Study Guide
A social construct that defines rules between people and how power is distributed in a group of people -
Ans:✔✔-Power Structure
Activities assigned to a person - Ans:✔✔-Roles
Pattern of interaction that happens in society. - Ans:✔✔-Communication Structures
How alike two things are - Ans:✔✔-Similarity
When two things are dependent on each other - Ans:✔✔-Interdependence
To be told to refrain from an act - Ans:✔✔-Injunctive
To forbid the action of something - Ans:✔✔-Prospective
A group of people that are together because of their culture - Ans:✔✔-Cultural Identity Group
Group of people, usually more than 10 - Ans:✔✔-Crowds
Group of people, with an underlying tone of violence - Ans:✔✔-Mobs
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Forming, Storming, Norming, Preforming, Adjorning - Ans:✔✔-Tuckerman Model
That groups form to be different than the average, making the average change and more groups to form
- Ans:✔✔-Seceder Model
Groups of people form from actives, sentiments and interactions - Ans:✔✔-Homan's Theory
When a friendship has continued long enough that there is an exchange of benefit from each other to
continue the friendship - Ans:✔✔-Social Exchange Theory
Tendency to follow others to things thinking that they will take consequences as they are first - Ans:✔✔-
Swarm Behaviour
When it looks like somebody knows what they are doing we tend to follow them in hopes they will guide
us - Ans:✔✔-Herd Mentality
Pretend to be more intelligent to get information and fit in - Ans:✔✔-Informational Conformity
Changing your behaviour to go along with group expectations - Ans:✔✔-Normative Conformity
Doing what is expected of you to go along with group expectations - Ans:✔✔-Referential Conformity
Groups change our identity. Creates "us" opposed to "them" - Ans:✔✔-Social Identity Theory
Change yourself to the group you want to/are fitting in - Ans:✔✔-Self-Categorization
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