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Down: 1) Movement up or down the social class ladder.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. 6) 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.7) Consists of people of relatively the same age, interests, and social posistion with whom one has reasonably close association and contact.9) A quality in an indiviual that sets him or her apart from others- the person is viewed as superhuman and capable of exceptional acts.11) Refers to movement (up, down, or sideways) within the social- class structure.12) 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.13) Robert Riedfield's term to describe modern Western industrialized nations; opposite of folk society.15) A group whose members came from a variety of social classes.16) A group in which contacts between members are intimate personal, and face to face.17) 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.20) Groups that have open membership, people may join or notices they wish.22) Objects (often material possessions) or behaviors that one uses to show (or exaggerate) one's place on the social- class ladder.26) A system of stratification in which lines or boundaries between levels (castes) are firmly drawn; mobility between castes is difficult if not impossible.28) A number of people who have a particular characteristic in common.32) A form of statification usually based on economics in which some human beings are owned by others.34) The ability of one party (either an individual or group) to affect the behavior of another party.37) A number of people who have shared or patterned interaction and who feel bound together ny a "consciousness of kind" or a "we" feeling. Across: 3) Movement from one occupation to another within the same social class; also used to refer to spatial or geographical mobility.4) The process of defining, describing, and distinguishing among different categories of people.5) Primary, closely knit society in which relationships are personal and informal and there is a commitment to or identification with the community.8) 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.10) 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.14) 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.18) Seconday Society based on contractual arrangments, bargaining, a well developed division of labor and rational thought rather than emotion.19) 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.21) 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.23) Groups whose members come predominantly from one socal-class level, such as associations of doctors or carpenters.24) 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.25) A number of people clustered together in one place.27) 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.29) A person who is caught between two antagonistic cultures; a product of both but a true member of neither.30) 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.31) 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.33) Groups that serve as models for our behavior; groups whose perspectices we take as our own and use to mold our behavior.35) 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.36) One's distinction in the eyes of others; ones reputation.38) A feeling of isolation meaningless, may occur when workers see themselves as only a small and insignificant part of a large, impersonal bureacuracy.39) A groupe into which it is difficult if not impossible to go in membership.
 

 

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