Unit 3 Social Issues

What is Ascribed Status?

• A status you are born with

• A status you are given

The underlying pattern of a group’s social relationships

• socialism

• social structure

• status

• society

all the statuses that a person occupies at any particular time.

• status set

• social network

• master status

• status grouping

happen when a person has trouble meeting the many roles connected with a single status.

• role conflict

• role performance

• role strain

• social interaction

grow food but use plows and animals to do the manual labor.

• Horticultural Societies

• Agricultural Societies

• Hunter Gatherer Societies

• Pastoral Societies

survive by hunting animals and gathering edible foods such as wild fruits and vegetables

• Horticultural Societies

• Agricultural Societies

• Hunter Gatherer Societies

• Pastoral Societies

A society that is dependent upon science and technology to produce its basic goods and services

• Horticultural Societies

• Agricultural Societies

• Hunter Gatherer Societies

• Industrial Society

a small group of people who interact over a relatively long period of time on a direct and personal basis

• reference group

• dyad

• formal group

• primary group

a three-person group

• quartet

• triad

• dyad

• triangle

Which of the following is NOT a problem with a bureaucracy?

• there are clear-cut lines of responsibility for each individual

• the formal structure tends to create feelings of alienation

• power tends to be in the hands of a few people at the top

• the development of a bureaucratic personality