Sociology: The Essentials- Chapter 5

Terms from chapter five of the sixth edition of Sociology the Essentials

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A status attained by effort
Achieved Status
A status someone is born into
Ascribed Status
The body of beleifs that are common to a community or society and that gives people a sense of belonging.
Collective Consciousness
Interaction occuring over the web
Cyberspace Interaction
The systematic interrelation of different tasks that develops in complex societies
Division of Labor
A technique to study human interraction where one deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy
Ethnomethodology
Human interraction is a game
Game Theory
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Gemeinschaft
A community that places importance on secondary relationships
Gesellschaft
A collection of individuals who interact and communicate, share goals and norms, and who have a subjective awareness as "we"
Group
A process to try to control how others perceive them
Impression Management
A process whereby a newborn attatches itself to the first thing it sees as "mother"
Imprinting
Analysis of the whole society
Macroanalysis
Some characteristic of a person that overrides all other personality treaits of them
Master Status
Unity based on similarity
Mechanical Solidarity