SOC Ch2, Ch3, and Ch4

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Chapter 4

1. What does macrosociology focus on?

2. What does microsociology focus on?

3. What is social structure?

4. What is the sociological significance of social structure?

5. What is social class and how is it significant?

6. What does status refer to?

7. Explain the difference between achieved and ascribed statuses.

8. What is a master status?

9. What are roles (in relation to status) and what is their sociological significance?

10. How are the groups to which we belong powerful forces in our lives?

11. What are social institutions?

12. Explain the difference between the functionalist and conflict perspective on social institutions.

13. ‘Symbolic interactionists are especially interested in’…..what?

14. Explain dramaturgy.

15. What is ‘impression management’?

16. What are front stages? Back stages?

17. What is a role performance?

18. Give an example(s) from your life of role conflict(s).

19. What are sign-vehicles?

20. What did sociologist Harold Garfinkel have his students do in order to ‘reveal our background assumptions’?