Chapter 5
Terms
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- negotiated order
- a social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character
- post-modern society
- a technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images
- social institution
- an organized pattern of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs
- role strain
- the difficulty that arises when the same social position imposes conflicting demands and expectations
- technology
- information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires
- socio-cultural evolution
- the process of change and development in human societies that results from cumulative growth in their stores of cultural information
- post-industrial society
- a society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information
- social role
- a set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status
- role conflict
- the situation that occurs when incompatible expectations arise from 2 or more social positions held by the same person
- mechanical solidarity
- a collective consciousness that emphasizes group solidarity, characteristic of societies with minimal division of labor
- Horticultural society
- a pre-industrial society in which people plant seeds and crops rather than merely subsist on available foods
- social network
- a series of social relationships that links a person directly to others, and through them indirectly to still more people
- Industrial society
- a society that depends on mechanization to produce its goods and services
- status
- a term used by sociologists to refer to any of a full range os socially defined positions within a large group or society
- social interaction
- the ways in which people respond to one another
- master status
- a status that dominates others and therby determines a person's general position in society
- Group
- any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis
- negotiation
- the attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective
- Hunting and gathering society
- a pre-industrial society in which people rely on what ever foods and fibers are readily available in order to survive
- role exit
- the porcess of disengagement from a role that is central to one's self-identity and establishment of a new role and identity
- organic solidarity
- a collective conscioisness that rests on mutual interdependence, characteristic of societies with a complex division of labor
- social structure
- the way in shich a society is organized into predictable relationships