Students are required to provide substantive responses to each essay question. By substantive responses, it means: Cover all key elements of each essay questionGive enough information about the topicS
Chapter 4 (Social Structure and Interaction in Everyday Life) QuestionsDifferentiate between ascribed status and achieved status and give examples to illustrate both. Describe status set and construct your status set.
Differentiate between role conflict and role strain and describe your own efforts to deal with role conflict and role strain in reality.
Explain Erving Goffman' impression management and explain front stage and back stage.
Read Chapter 5 and find the definitions of the concepts and give examples to illustrate them.
| Concepts | Definition | Examples |
| Social group | consists of two or more people who interact frequently and share a common identity and a feeling of interdependence. | families and childhood friends, to our college classes, to our work and community organizations, and even to society. |
| Primary group | a small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotion-based interactions over an extended period of time. | family, close friends, and school- or work-related peer groups. |
| Secondary group | a larger, more specialized group in which members engage in more-impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time | Schools, churches, and corporations |
| Reference group | a group that strongly influences a person’s behavior and social attitudes, regardless of whether that individual is an actual member. | family or friends social club or a profession |
| An aggregate | a collection of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time but share little else in common. | Shoppers in a department store and passengers on an airplane flight |
| Category | a number of people who may never have met one another but share a similar characteristic, such as education level, age, race, or gender. | Men and women make up categories, as do Native Americans and Latinos/as, and victims of sexual or racial harassment |
| Group Conformity | the process of maintaining or changing behavior to comply with the norms established by a society, subculture, or other group. | |
| Stanley Milgram and controversial experiments |
|
|
| Characteristics of a bureaucracy | characterized by a hierarchy of authority, a clear division of labor, rules and regulations, Qualification-based employment and impersonality |
|
| Informal side of bureaucracy | composed of those aspects of participants’ day-to-day activities and interactions that ignore, bypass, or do not correspond with the official rules and procedures of the bureaucracy | an informal “grapevine” that spreads information (with varying degrees of accuracy) much faster than do official channels of communication, which tend to be slow and unresponsive |
| Conflict theory on organization |
|
|
Differentiate between primary deviance and secondary deviance under labeling theory. Please give an example to illustrate these two concepts. How do you define deviance?
Identify white-collar crime, political crime, hate crime, juvenile crime, and organized crime. Please provide 2examples of each crime and discuss their impact on society.
