SOCIOLOGY MID TERM REVIEW PART 1

____________ is a position that we are born/inheret/naturally grow into. Male *sex, Female *sex, Haitian, Taiwanese, American Indian, etc.

• achieved status

• ascribed status

• value status

____________: is a position that we have acquired through choice.

• ascribed status

• achieved status

• value status

Clearly represents a majority of a person’s identity. Shapes a person’s entire life *how? Could be an achieved or ascribed status. It just depends on what the person lists first and foremost about themselves or the order in which others describe the person.

• master status

• value status

• ascribed status

• achieved status

______________: refers to occupying social positions that create conflict because they are ranked differently. Either by social standards or in the difference between how one defines themselves compared to how others define them.

Examples: A person of a minority race that is a highly ranked official may be treated differently in street clothes on their leisure time than they are treated when they are in professional attire in their office

• status inconsistency

• role conflict

• role taking

• status epilepticus

___________: are the standards by which members of a particular culture define what is:

· good or bad

· moral or immoral

· proper or improper

· desirable or undesirable

· beautiful or ugly.

• mores

• folkways

• values

• sanctions

__________:norms that members of a society look upon as not being too critical and that may be broken without major punishment. Ex: Eat with a fork; cover your mouth when you cough; dress in style, don’t skip school, always bring your prof a on exam review day, etc.

• mores

• values

• folkways

• sanctions

norms that society considers very important because they maintain morals, ethics, and uphold laws. Ex: Don’t murder. Do not push old people over if they are in your way at Publix walking at negative mach 300. Don’t take your pants off at Sea World, etc.

• folkways

• mores

• sanctions

• values

rewards for appropriate behavior and penalties for inappropriate behavior. Sanctions vary in strength and can be positive or negative, formal (mandatory) or informal (mearly welcomed or unwelcomed).

Ø A hug

Ø A nickel for taking out the trash for your grandmother

Ø A prison sentence

Ø Getting fired

• folkways

• mores

• sanctions

• value goals

____________:the process through which components of culture spread from one society to another.

Ex: Internet is available throughout the world (thanks to Al Gore…..), Dance styles are spread from city to city.

• assimilation

• diffusion

• cultural spread

• social strain theory

American society has culturally approved goals and institutionalized means (working a job or some sort of organizational trade off to get to your goals).*Ex: Becoming wealthy is an approved goal. Working hard and investing your money wisely is approved as a “mean” to get there.

• social strain theory

• diffusion

• wealth goals

• #culturegoals