Sociology Test 2

A is a social group that serves as a point of reference for people making evaluations or decisions.

are large, secondary groups that are organized to achieve goals efficiently.

is made up of individuals who temporarily share the same physical space but do not have a sense of belonging together.

refers to the way organisation come to be dominated by a small, self-perpetvating elite.

is how groups influence the behavior of their members.

George Simnel researched

coined the term "group think"

refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.

can be defined as a large group of people who rank close to each other in wealth, power, and prestige.

mobility is the change that family members make in their social class form one generation to the next.

Mobility is class change within one generation.

Mobility involves social changes that affect large numbers of people.

Mobility refers to the movement of people up and down the social class system, where, on balance, the system remains the same.

is the ownership of property and the exercise of power is monopolized by an elite who have total control over society resources.

amounts to social stratification based on ascription or birth.

is form of social stratification based primary on the possession of money or material possessions. (Based on achieved goals)

is the confusion resulting from rapid scientific and technological changes that unravel our traditional values and beliefs.

is the idea that culture is a projection of social structures and relationships into the public sphere; a screen onto which the film of the underlying reality or social structures is projected.

The focuses on how nations that industrialized first got the jump on the rest of the world.

is a model of economic and social development that global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences among nations.

is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical explanation of poor societies by rich ones.

is a condition by which a dominant group uses its power to elicit the voluntary "consent" of the masses.

is the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture; it is the process by which we learn the ways of our society.

is social relationships experienced by children determine adult personalities.

is formative on of identity is a learned response from social stimuli.

refers to the process of social learning directed toward gaining a desired position and commonly occurs among peers.

is a place cut off from the rest of society and is under almost total control of agents who work for the insinuations.

The is the process by which individuals creatively shape reality through social reaction.

exists where the statuses occupied by a person bring with them significantly different amounts of prestige, thus differing expectations.

of interaction holds that our interactions are determined by the rewards and punishments that we receive from others.

is a mathematical and economic theory that predicts human interaction has the characteristics of a game.

is an analysis of how we present ourselves in everyday life.

is an effort of an individual to create specific impressions in the minds of others.

is the process to manage the impressions that others have of her or him.

is the particular emphasis or interpretation that an individual gives a role he/she is fulfilling.

involves helping someone save fave following a bad performance.

is the component of communication that is conveyed by the pitch and loudness of one's voice.

the meaning that is conveyed by the amount of space between individuals.

involves the discovery of rules concerning our views of the world and how people ought to act.

founded the ethnomethodological approach.