| Term | Definition |
|---|
| society | system of social interaction that includes both culture and social organization |
| social interaction | behavior between two or more people that is given meaning by them |
| macroanalysis | takes the broadest view of society by studying large patterns of oscial interaction that are vast, complex, and highly differentiated |
| microanalysis | focus is on the smallest, most immediately visible parts of social life |
| social institution | established and organized sstem of social behavior with a recognized purpose |
| social structure | organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose society |
| collective consciousness | body of beliefs common to a community or society that give people a sense of belonging and a feeling of moral obligation to its demands and values |
| mechanical solidarity | arises when individuals play similar roles within a society |
| organic solidarity | when people play a great variety of role and unity is based on role differentiation, not similarity |
| division of labor | relatedness of different tasks that develop in complex societies |
| gemeinschaft | "community" |
| gesellschaft | "society" |
| preindustrial society | directly uses and tills the land as a major means of survival |
| postindustrial society | depends economically on the production and distribution of services, information, and knowlege |
| group | collection of individuals who interact and communicate with eachother, share goals and norms, and have a subjective awareness of themselves as "we" |
| status | established positionin a social structure that carries with it a degree of prestige |
| status set | complete set of statuses occupied by a person at a given time |
| status inconsistencey | statuses occupied by a person bring with them significantly different amounts of prestige and thus differing expectations |
| achieved statuses | attained by virtue or individual effort |
| ascribed status | occupied from the moment a person is born |
| master status | one status is dominant |
| role | behavior others expect from a person associated with the particular status |
| role modeling | process by which we imitate the behavior of another person we admire who is in a particular role |
| role set | includes all the roles occupied by the person at a given time |
| role conflict | wherein two or more roles are associated with contradictory expectations |
| role strain | single role brings conflicting expectations |
| proximic communication | amount of space between interacting individuals |
| ethnomethodology | technique for studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy |
| impression management | process by which people control how others perceive of them |
| cyberspace interaction | when people interact and communicate with one another by means of personal computers |
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