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| Achieved Status | Position acquired by an individual on the basis of some special skill, knowledge, or ability. |
| Aggregate | Group of people gathered in the same place at the same time who lack organization or lasting patters of interaction. |
| Ascribed Status | Position assigned according to standards that are beyond a persons control. |
| Barter | Practice of exchanging one good for another. |
| Bureaucracy | Ranked authority structure that operates according to specific rules and procedures. |
| Group | Set of two ro more people who interact on the basis of shared expectations and who possess some degree of common identity. |
| Master Status | Status that plays the greatest role in shaping a person's life and determining his or her social identity. |
| Rationality | The process of subjecting every feature of human behavior to calculation, measurement, and control. |
| Reciprocal Roles | Corresponding roles that define the patterns of interaction between related statuses. |
| Role | Expected behavior of someone occupying a particular status. |
| Role Conflict | Situation that occurs when fulfilling the expectations of one role makes it difficult to fulfill the expectations of another role. |
| Role Expectations | Socially determined behaviors expected of a person performing a role. |
| Role Performance | Actual behavior of a person performing a role. |
| Role Set | Different roles attached to a single status. |
| Role Strain | Situation that occurs when a person has difficulty meeting the expectations of a single role. |
| Social Institution | System of statuses, roles, values, and norms that organized to satisfy one or more of the basic needs of society. |
| Social Network | Web of relationships that is formed by the sum total of an individual's interactions with other people. |
| Social Structure | Network of interrelated statuses and roles that guide human interaction. |
| Status | Socially defined position in a group or in a society. |
| Urbanization | Concentration of a population in cities. |
