| A | B |
|---|
| master status | a status that has special importance for social identity |
| Thomas theorem | situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences |
| conventional | what people expect in some situation |
| secondary group | large and impersonal social group whose members puruse a specific goal or activity |
| out-group | ocial group toward which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition |
| rationalization of society | the historical change from tradition to rationality as the dominant mode of human thought |
| oligarchy | the rule of the many by the few |
| formal organization | a large secondary group organized to achieve its goals efficiently |
| expressive leadership | group leadership that focuses on the group's well-being |
| "McDonaldization" | involves increasing automation and impersonality in society |
| transsexuals | people who feel they are one sex even though biologically hey are the other |
| incest taboo | a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives |
| sexual orientation | person's romantic and emotional attraction to another person |
| queer theory | growing body of research findings that challenges the heterosexual bias in US society |
| Social-conflict approach (chapter 6) | one way in which men dominate women is by devaluing them as sexual objects |
| structural-functional theory (chapter 6) | society's need to regulate sexual activity |
| symbolic-interaction theory (chapter 6) | notes how people attach various meanings to sexuality |
| Harold Garfinkel | founder of ethnomethodology |
| Edward Hall | studied the concept of personal space |
| Erving Goffman | analyzed everyday life in terms of dramaturgy |
