SYG2000 UF EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED
social structure - -a largely invisible system that coordinates human
activities in broadly predictable ways
- social structure can shape - -- relationships
- identities
- barriers preventing access to resources, and the ease by which those
barriers can be broken
- statuses - -ascribed or achieved
- social role - -- behavior expected of a status/role in relation to another
status/role
- people occupy status and enact or preform roles
- groups - -- two or more people interact in largely predictable ways who
share expectations about their purpose for being
- group members hold statuses and enact roles that relate to the group's
purpose
- types of groups - -- primary: face to face contact, string emotional ties
- secondary: interact for specific purpose/task
- institutions - -- created and sustained with the purpose of coordinating
human activity to meet a need (food, shelter, clothing, etc.)
- education systems, hospitals, religions, governments, families
- characteristics of institutions (5) - -1) have a history
2) continuously change
3) allocate scarce and values resources in unequal ways
4) allocate privileged and disadvantaged status
5) promote ideologies that legitimate there existence
- rationalization - -according to Max Weber, the process whereby action
based on tradition,, emotion or values is replaced by instrumental rational
actions
- instrumental rational action - -result-oriented behavior and practices that
emphasize the most efficient methods for achieving some valued goal,
regardless of the consequences (end justifies mean, means-to-end thinking)
- ascribed status - -result of chance: race, sex, age
, - achieved status - -result of personal effort: athlete, parent, divorced
- ascribed statuses have an important bearing on
____________________________. - -the statuses one can achieve
- McDonaldization of society - -guided by instrumental rational action and
uses the principles of the fast food industry
- principles of the fast food industry(4) - -1) efficiency
2) calculability
3) predictability
4) control
- Emotional Labor - -work that requires employees to display and suppress
specific emotions or damage customer emotions Ex. Flight attendant, server
- Thomas Theorem - -"If human beings define situations as real, they are
real in their consequences." Ex. religion, ghosts
- Definition of the situation - -the meaning we give out immediate
circumstances (blue print of what culture is)
- self-fulfilling prophecies - -Paul Watzlawick says, "it is an assumption or
predictions that, purely as a result of having been made, causes the
expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy'.
- who said, "the prophecy of event causes the event of prophecy?" - -Paul
Watzlawick
- The social construction of reality - -people draw on knowledge to create
the reality upon which they act
- Assigned meaning - -names and meaning are given to things around us tat
help us make sense of out world (rat question)
- zone proximity - -everyday is divided into a continuum of zones. the zones
closest to us are given the most attention (shootings in paris versus shoots in
america)
- routine - -the usual ways of thinking and doing things
- barriers to challenge reality - -language can hinder challenges to reality,
because it is developed to represent a particular reality (transgender)
- tipi-factory schemes (or cognitive knowledge structures and schemata) - -
systematic mental frameworks that allow people to place what they observe
ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED
social structure - -a largely invisible system that coordinates human
activities in broadly predictable ways
- social structure can shape - -- relationships
- identities
- barriers preventing access to resources, and the ease by which those
barriers can be broken
- statuses - -ascribed or achieved
- social role - -- behavior expected of a status/role in relation to another
status/role
- people occupy status and enact or preform roles
- groups - -- two or more people interact in largely predictable ways who
share expectations about their purpose for being
- group members hold statuses and enact roles that relate to the group's
purpose
- types of groups - -- primary: face to face contact, string emotional ties
- secondary: interact for specific purpose/task
- institutions - -- created and sustained with the purpose of coordinating
human activity to meet a need (food, shelter, clothing, etc.)
- education systems, hospitals, religions, governments, families
- characteristics of institutions (5) - -1) have a history
2) continuously change
3) allocate scarce and values resources in unequal ways
4) allocate privileged and disadvantaged status
5) promote ideologies that legitimate there existence
- rationalization - -according to Max Weber, the process whereby action
based on tradition,, emotion or values is replaced by instrumental rational
actions
- instrumental rational action - -result-oriented behavior and practices that
emphasize the most efficient methods for achieving some valued goal,
regardless of the consequences (end justifies mean, means-to-end thinking)
- ascribed status - -result of chance: race, sex, age
, - achieved status - -result of personal effort: athlete, parent, divorced
- ascribed statuses have an important bearing on
____________________________. - -the statuses one can achieve
- McDonaldization of society - -guided by instrumental rational action and
uses the principles of the fast food industry
- principles of the fast food industry(4) - -1) efficiency
2) calculability
3) predictability
4) control
- Emotional Labor - -work that requires employees to display and suppress
specific emotions or damage customer emotions Ex. Flight attendant, server
- Thomas Theorem - -"If human beings define situations as real, they are
real in their consequences." Ex. religion, ghosts
- Definition of the situation - -the meaning we give out immediate
circumstances (blue print of what culture is)
- self-fulfilling prophecies - -Paul Watzlawick says, "it is an assumption or
predictions that, purely as a result of having been made, causes the
expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy'.
- who said, "the prophecy of event causes the event of prophecy?" - -Paul
Watzlawick
- The social construction of reality - -people draw on knowledge to create
the reality upon which they act
- Assigned meaning - -names and meaning are given to things around us tat
help us make sense of out world (rat question)
- zone proximity - -everyday is divided into a continuum of zones. the zones
closest to us are given the most attention (shootings in paris versus shoots in
america)
- routine - -the usual ways of thinking and doing things
- barriers to challenge reality - -language can hinder challenges to reality,
because it is developed to represent a particular reality (transgender)
- tipi-factory schemes (or cognitive knowledge structures and schemata) - -
systematic mental frameworks that allow people to place what they observe
