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American Values Personal Achievement

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Progress and Material Comfort

Other American values: Morality and Humanitarianism Efficiency and Practicality Equality and Democracy Freedom New emerging characteristic Narcissism: extreme self-centeredness

Most of our norms are INTERNALIZED (i.e. we How are Norms created? Most of our norms are INTERNALIZED (i.e. we just follow them without thinking.) Sanctions: Society does however consciously Enforce norms through positive or negative sanctions

Positive Sanctions: rewards for appropriate “NORMal” behavior. Can be formal or informal.

Negative Sanctions: punishment or threat of Punishment used to enforce CONFORMITY to Norms. Can be formal or informal.

of social control can include any authority Social Control: Most NORMS are enforced by Internalization; however agents of social control can include any authority figure.

Cultural Diffusion: The spreading of cultural traits from one culture to another Cultural Lag: When society needs time to catch up with cultural changes. For example: Texting while driving was not a crime until many people had been hurt in accidents related to it

Social Structure STATUS: Socially defined position within a group ROLE (actor): The behavior expected of someone of a particular status.

LATIN KING DRUG LORD AND TRAINED STATUSES Member of the Marching Band Big Brother HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT LATIN KING DRUG LORD AND TRAINED KILLER Son and Fisherman

TYPES OF STATUS ASCRIBED: Level of status that you can not control Teenager, female, Irish ACHIEVED: Status you’ve earned Captain, Valedictorian, Convict

MASTER STATUS The status the most defines your life and identity. Master status changes throughout your life

ROLES: Your behavior reflects what is expected from someone of your status Role Strain: When a person has difficulty meeting the role expectations of their status.

GROUPS Group: two or more people who interact and share a common identity Primary groups: personal and long term Secondary groups: impersonal and temporary INGROUPS: Group with clearly defined membership (symbols, language) OUTGROUP: Anyone who doesn’t belong to INGROUP (us=ingroup v. them=outgroup) PRIMARY SECONDARY FAMILY FRIENDS CLUBS CLASSROOM WORK

Group Size Dyad: two person group -fragile because each person critical to the survival of the group. Triad: three person group -more sturdy structure, no one person can destroy, Largest functioning group: about 15 -any larger and subgroups naturally form

Aggregates People who gather together but share no common identity or organization.

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