Matching Pairs Social Structure & InteractionOnline version This matching activity reviews terms and definitions related to social structure, social constructionism, roles, and status. by Adriane Mozzini 1 Role Conflict 2 Achieved status 3 Gesellschaft 4 Social Constructionism 5 Status 6 Gemeinschaft 7 Social structure 8 Mechanical Solidarity 9 Organic Solidarity 10 Ascribed status 11 Role Strain 12 Social interaction 13 Social Roles People create society through their actions, and then become products of the social norms and values that they created Societies in which social cohesion is based on shared experiences, knowledge, and skills in which things function more or less the way they always have; society runs like a well-oiled machine. a reciprocal exchange in which two or more people read, react, and respond to each other the difficulty that arises when the same social status imposes conflicting demands and expectations earned through our actions, whether positive or negative, so it's a social position that is within our power to change the social positions we occupy relative to others. In other words, our status is a product of our social interactions This is usually assigned to a person at birth by society at large and generally it can't be changed, such as race or heritage close-knit, often rural environment in which strong personal bonds unite members the underlying framework of society consisting of the positions people occupy and the relationships between them a set of expected behaviors for people who occupy a given social status Social cohesion is based on mutual interdependence in the context of extreme division of labor. the situation that occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social statuses held by the same person urban, large, impersonal cities where people demonstrate little commitment to the group or consensus on values
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