Leadership- Sociology

Socialization

the lifelong process of an individual or group learning the expected norms and customs of a group or society through social interaction

Social Structure

the organized set of social institutions and patterns of institutionalized relationships that together compose society

Social Location

a combinations of factors such as gender, race, social class, age, ability, religion, sexual orientation, and geographic location

Status

the position that someone occupies in society

Role

the behavior expected of someone with a certain status

Social Institution

patterns of beliefs and behavior that help a society meet its basic needs (ex. family, economy, religion)

Formal Institution

large group that follows explicit rules and procedure to achieve specific goals and tasks

"society is big, but it is also very small"

'society' is large groups or even countries interacting and creating culture, but it is also one on one interactions between friends, family members, coworkers, ect.

sociological perspective/imagination

term used to describe framework for understanding social reality that places personal experiences within a broader social, historical, and cultural context

"seeing the general in the particular"

looking at the world using sociology involved seeing individual actions as part of a much bigger picture. Individual interactions create the larger picture that is society

"seeing the strange in the familiar"

looking at the world using sociology involves seeing nothing as typical and analyzing every actions, tradition, norm to try to understand why it has the meaning it has and what affects on society (positive or negative) that thing has

primary socialization

family influence on you, core beliefs, basic human behavior

secondary socialization

outside groups later in life (school, college, online, adult social settings), can be a challenge to primary socialization

social network

the totality of relationships that link us to other people and groups and through them to still other people and groups (mutual friends)

norms

the visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured

values

culture's standard for discerning what is good and just in society for transmitting and teaching a culture's beliefs

beliefs

the tenets or convictions that people hold to be true

informal norms

norms that are not written down and are transmitted through socialization

formal norms

things written down or codified by a society (laws, regulations, policies)