Sociology Test1B
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kchoyce2012 on March 9, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 the good german | refers to people who observe reprehensible things taking place but remain silent |
| the banality of evil | failure to resist lawful authority; only following orders |
| moral hazard | the prospect that a party insulated from the risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk. It arises because an individual or institution does not bear the full consequences of its actions, and therefore has a tendency to act less carefully than it would otherwise would, leaving another party to bear some responsibility for the consequences of those actions |
| conformity | a process by which people's beliefs or behaviors are influenced by others within a group |
| the looking glass self | our sense of self develops in large part from interaction with others |
| social desirability | the tendency to want to make oneself appear better than one actually is |
| impression management | our socialized stage performance; faking it?, face-saving behavior, widely tolerated distinction |
| narrative | a form of communication that arranges human actions and events into organized wholes in a way that bestows meaning on the actions and events by specifying their interactive or cause-and-effect relations to the whole |
| moral | an orientation towards what is right and wrong, good and bad, worthy and unworthy, just and unjust, that is not established by out decisions or preferences but exists apart from them, providing standards by which our decisions and preferences can be judged |
| order | prevailing course or arrangement of things; established system |
| scripts | emerge from moral orders that are themselves embedded in larger narratives |
| roles | the expectations attached to a script |
| plausibility structures | the degree to which belief (or disbelief) seems convincing is directly related to this- that is, the group or community which provides the social and psychological support for the belief |
| law | no less a story than other narratives. it's simply codified norms that we collectively agree to abide by |
| institutions | structured mechanisms of social order governing social behavior |
| institutionalization | the process of making something- for example a concept, a social role, particular values and norms, or ways of behaving- become embedded within a social system as an established custom or norm within that system |
| organizations | planned, coordinated and purposeful actions of human beings to construct or compile common tangible or intangible products or services |
| iron law of oligarchy | organizations come to be dominated by a self-perpetuating elite |
| reference groups | the groups we use as standards by which to evaluate ourselves |
| dyad | smallest possible group; most intense and intimate; most unstable |
| triad | fundamentally different than a dyad, interaction between nodes decreases; strength and stability increases; can witness coalitions, produce mediators |
| groupthink | the collective tunnel vision that group members sometimes develop |
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