Achieved Status

Ascribed Statuses

An ascribed status that this newborn will be placed under for example, is a 'Ginger,' for his red hair.

Social statuses that are often assigned at birth and that do not change during an indivual's lifetime; gender, race, and ethnic status group are examples.

'Down-Syndrome' is often used as an ascribed status at birth.

Achieved Status

Social status that is chosen or earned by decisions one makes and sometimes by personal ability.

Conflict Theory

To become a doctor one must earn the degrees; One does not just become a doctor but must work for the status.

Theory that focuses on social groups competing for scarce resources.

This photo show a group of people fighting for food and other canned goods after a store had collapsed.

Agents of Socialization

Many people believe that materials such as a big mansion or expensive cars give them a better status socially. They believe they have achieved a greater, higher status than those who do not have as nice of materials.

The transmitters of culture--the people, organizations, and institutions that help us define our identity and teach us how to thrive in our social world.

In many countries they have a very low supply of food and it results in the society fighting each other to survive.

Children and adults often turn to councilors to help them be a better part of society or a better individual.

Churches and/or youth groups typically provide guidance to those who have none.

Cultural Relativity

Agricultural Society

This photo represents plowing and the work that goes into a Agricultural Society. Plowing occurs so crops can grow.

Set aside cultural and personal beliefs and prejudices and interpret behavior in the context of the relevant society and their cultural expectations working to recognize and reduce our ethnocentrisms

Relies primarily on raising crops for food, but use of technology advances such as the plow, irrigation, animals, and fertilization to continuously cultivate the land.

This is an Agricultural symbol.

Not all dalmatians are created equal.

Culture

This photo symbolizes that grouping an individual because of race is not right because EVERYONE that is one race cant ALL be the same.

The way of life shared by a group of people--the knowledge, beliefs, values, rules or laws, language, customs, symbols, and material products within a society that help meet human needs.

The world is mixed with hundreds of cultures and religions. This picture shows the world covered in all its cultures.

These are symbols that represent many religion/cultures.

Deviance

Endogamy

The violation of social norms.

Norms that require individuals to marry inside certain human boundaries, whatever the societal member see as protecting the homogenity of the group.

At times, when you're in the spotlight as a celebrity or a King and queen you must perform in a certain light due to your social status.

In many cultures women are expected to act a certain way to society and for their husband.

This photo represents police Deviance.

Believing that you are better than someone else based off of their race or social standing.

Being or feeling like the "odd man out" is deviance; not following the crowd/society.

Ethnocentrism

Discrimination

The tendency to view one's own group and it's cultural expectations as tight, proper, and superior to others.

Differential treatment and harmful actions against minorities.

This photo represents discrimination against gays.

This represents discrimination against women.

Family of Orientation

The family into which we are born or adopted.

These photos show the children that were born into that family with those parents.

Gender Roles

Family of Procreation

The family we create ourselves.

In the show, Friends,the six (in the show) became each others family. Febee on the right especially made the other five her family because she had no close relatives alive.

This picture symbolizes all the possibilities of family.

Those commonly assigned tasks or expected behaviors linked to an individuals sex-determined statuses.

Gender

A society's notions of masculinity and femininity--socially constructed meanings of associated with being male or female--and how individuals construct the identity in terms of gender within these constraints.

This symbolizes the male gender.

This symbolizes the female gender

Globalization

"Typical" gender roles suggest that men should be the bread winners and women stay home and raise the kids.

The process by which the entire world is becoming a single interdependent sociocultural entity, more uniform, more integrated, and more interdependent.

The idea of the world conforming to some single thing, actions, or belief.

I don't believe globalization of one single belief or action will happen because there are to many people in the world, too many opinions. (open to being wrong)

Herding Societies

Societies in which the food producing strategy is based on domestication of animals, whose care is the central focus of their activities.

Master Status

These are examples of master statuses.

Material Culture

Horticultural Societies

An individual's social status that becomes most important and takes precedence over other statuses.

This photo shows two young boys herding cattle.

Includes all the objects we can see or touch; all the artifacts of a group of people.

A cartoon showing a man playing his land for vegetables.

These are various artifacts from south India.

Societies in which the food producing strategy is based on domestication of plants, using digging sticks and wooden hoes to cultivate small gardens.

we all have the idea of the master status we want to achieve in life. Some only want to graduate and some want to become president

Norms

Ancient artifacts from the Azerbaijan culture.

Rules of behavior shared by members of a society and rooted in the value system.

These are examples of behavioral norms expected by society.

Being the same, looking the same, acting the same, everything the same and that it normal.

Past-In-Present Discrimination

Practices from the past htmay no longer be allowed but that continue to have consequences for people in the present.

Then and now examples.

Nonmaterial Culture

This photo shows how people work on the land by adding plants and gardening with various tools.

These are some of the tools look like that are used to garden.

The thoughts language, feelings, beliefs, values, and attitudes that make up much of our culture.

Hunter-Gather Society

Levels of Analysis

Being vegan is a nonmaterial culture.

Being a "hippy" is an example of nonmaterial culture.

Intersectionality

A society in which people rely on the vegetation or animals occurring naturally in their habitat to sustain life.

A conceptual framework that acknowledges the combination of our multiple and diverse social positions, locations, identities, belongings, and experiences.

This photo represents men gathering for their family.

Some of the tools used to hunt are bows and arrows.

Understanding that our choices stem from all experiences.

Another map showing possible intersections.

Industrial Societies

Rely primarily on mechanized production resulting in greater division of labor based on expertise.

Institutional Racial Discrimination

Industrial societies began very early in life; beginning with women and children.

This photo shows a Colgate factory mass producing toothpaste.

Any meso-level institutional arrangement that favors one racial group over another; this favoritism may result in intentional or unintentional consequences for minority groups.

Inequality

Currently we are witnessing a huge rise in racial discrimination against Blacks with cops.

Being discriminated because of your race.

A social condition in which privileges, opportunity, and sustain until re-given to people in some positions in society but denied to others.

We live in world where not being wealthy makes you less than.

This photo represents not getting your fair share.

Placing blame

Sanctions

Scapegoats

Throwing your anger or issues it someone who doesn't deserve it.

Rewards and penalties that reinforce norms.

A person or group blamed for conditions that

(a) cannot be controlled

(b) threaten a community’s sense of well-being

(c) shake the foundations of an important institution

Occurs with groups who are vulnerable, hated, powerless, or viewed as different

Earning rewards can convince someone to step into social norms.

Being bullied can force someone to conform to social norms.

Sociological Imagination

Structural-Functional Theory

Social World Model

The recognition of the complex and interactive relationship between micro-level individual experiences and macro-level issues.

Assumes that all parts of the social structure (including groups, organizations, and institutions,) the culture (values and belief,) and social processes (social change or child rearing) work together to make the whole society run smoothly and harmoniously.

The levels of analysis in our social surroundings as an interconnected series of small groups, organizations, institutions, and societies.

Stereotypes

Social Change

Trends that come and go through the years.

Rigid and inaccurate generalizations about people who belong to an out group or a belief.

Variations or alterations over time in the behavior patterns, culture (including norms and values), and structure of society.

Socialization

Our influences around us determine our socialization.

Levels of society

The lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world, beginning at birth and continuing until death.

Social Structure

Who we group and hang out with.

A woman's role is to cook and clean.

Men and women have distinct jobs in society.

Roles

The stable patterns of interactions, statuses, roles, and institutions that provide stability for the society and bring order to individuals' lives.

The expected behaviors, rights, obligations, responsibilities, and privileges assigned to a social status.

Public Sociologists

Strive to better understand how society operates and to make practical use of their sociological findings.

Understanding how the world works and being open minded to change.

Race

A socially created concept that identifies a group as "different" based in certain biogically inherited physcial characteristics. This allows members of the group to be singled out for dissimilar treatment.

Reproduction of Class

The socioeconomic positions of one generation passing on to the next.

Social Locations

Social locations, like social statuses, indicate positions in society. Social locations contextualize and influence our behavior

tax debts being passed to younger generations.

This picture represents the levels of class financially throughout society.

Social Class

The wealth, power, and prestige rankings that individuals hold in society; a large group with similar rankings.

Postindustrial Society

This symbolizes how if someone falls blow the poverty line they are expected to no longer financially stable again.

A society that has moved from human labor and manufactoring to automated production and service jobs largely processing information.

Prejudice

Technology has greatly improved and increased since Postindustrial Society

Attitudes or prejudement about a group, usually negative and not based on facts.

A group of buildings occurring in a post industrial society

One of the most respected social statuses is the President of the United States.

Social Statuses

This photo shows a free speech movement contributing to a social movement.

Americans are prejudice Muslims and make them out to all be terrorists.

Social Movements

Current social movement

A social positions in society.

Another example of prejudice is assuming all african american people are criminals.

With social status you are judged on what you have and don't have.

Consciously organized attempts outside of established institutional mechanisms to enhance or resist change through group action.

Symbolic Interaction Theory

Sees humans as active agents who create shared meanings of symbols and events, and then interact on the basis of those meanings.

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Power

A symbol for Power.

Our daily interactions

Ability of a person or group to realize its own will in groups, even against the resistance of others.

Another symbol for power but for technology.