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Down: 2) The division of people in society into layers or ranks. The source of the ranking can be one or a combination of factors: wealth, power, prestige, race, sex, age, religion, and so on. 3) Rule by a few Robert Michels's "Iron Law of Oligarchy" describes the tendency in large organizations for an increasingly conservative ecite to emerge and take over, with abuse of power a likely consequence.4) The process of defining, describing, and distinguishing among different categories of people.5) Group in which contacts between members are more impersonal than in a primary group, interaction is more superficial and is probably based on utilitarian goals.7) Consists of people of relatively the same age, interests, and social posistion with whom one has reasonably close association and contact.9) The ability of one party (either an individual or group) to affect the behavior of another party.10) A form of statification usually based on economics in which some human beings are owned by others.11) An awareness of one's position or class in society and of the circumstances, interests and concerns that the class has in common; from Karl Marx.12) Primary, closely knit society in which relationships are personal and informal and there is a commitment to or identification with the community.13) Movement up or down the social class ladder.14) A feeling of isolation meaningless, may occur when workers see themselves as only a small and insignificant part of a large, impersonal bureacuracy.17) A groupe into which it is difficult if not impossible to go in membership.21) Groups in which membership is automatic and the participant has no choice regarding joining, such as one's family or the army platoon to which on is assigned.23) Objects (often material possessions) or behaviors that one uses to show (or exaggerate) one's place on the social- class ladder.24) Ostensibly, according to Turner and Strnes, a humanitarian effort to keep people from starving monetary support; it actually perpetates poverty by keeping payments low, by forcing people to work in any avilable job, and by diffusing any collective power the poor may have.25) Groups that have open membership, people may join or notices they wish.27) A group in which contacts between members are intimate personal, and face to face.28) A number of people who have shared or patterned interaction and who feel bound together ny a "consciousness of kind" or a "we" feeling.31) A number of people who have a particular characteristic in common. Across: 1) Robert Riedfield's term to describe modern Western industrialized nations; opposite of folk society.6) A group to which membership is easy to gain.8) Groups that serve as models for our behavior; groups whose perspectices we take as our own and use to mold our behavior.15) One's distinction in the eyes of others; ones reputation.16) Seconday Society based on contractual arrangments, bargaining, a well developed division of labor and rational thought rather than emotion.18) A form of statifiacation found in advanced agricultural societies in which land is the most important economic resource. Two (landowners, peasants) or three (landowners, clergy, peasant) estates exist, with the landowners, who might represent less than 5% of the population.19) A person who is caught between two antagonistic cultures; a product of both but a true member of neither.20) The social faboric of society, the integrated set of norms, roles, cultural values, and beliefs through which people interact with each other individually in groups.22) A consquence of social differentiation in which categories of people are ranked or valued at different levels, based on such factors as wealth, race, ethnicity, age, or gender.26) Situation that occurs when the factors that determine an individual's rank in society are not consistent with each other- for example, a college- educated carpenter or a black court justice.29) A group whose members came from a variety of social classes.30) Movement from one occupation to another within the same social class; also used to refer to spatial or geographical mobility.32) Durkhein's description of the type of social conhesion likely to exist in modern industrialization societies; a high degree of specialization and division of labor, and increasing individualism.33) A form of stratification emerging in more complex and industialization socities. These socities require a more educated and skilled work force and an extensive division of labor. This system is more open movement from on level to another is more feasible than in caste or estate system.34) Formal orgainization. An organization in which the activites of some people are systematically planned by other people no achieve some purpuse, usually involves such characteristics as division of labor, hierachy of autority system of rules impersonality, and teachnical efficiency.35) Refers to movement (up, down, or sideways) within the social- class structure.36) A number of people clustered together in one place.37) Robert Redfield's term used to describe isolated villages in nonindustrialized countries that are small homogeneous, relaticely self contained, and largely based on subsistence activities.38) Groups whose members come predominantly from one socal-class level, such as associations of doctors or carpenters.39) A quality in an indiviual that sets him or her apart from others- the person is viewed as superhuman and capable of exceptional acts.40) A system of stratification in which lines or boundaries between levels (castes) are firmly drawn; mobility between castes is difficult if not impossible.
 

 

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