SA 150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Week, Thomas Theorem, Trait Theory
13 Apr 2016
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Week 3: social roles & social status organizaions (ch 5) 2 key ideas: people categorize experience, then act on the basis of those categories, the social origins of categories get forgoten, and people come to see them as natural and unchangeable. Time: diferent socieies divide ime in diferent ways. 3 day week to 19 day week: it is somewhat arbitrary, once we decide on a 7 day week, we set up other things to it with this schedule. Forget that these disincions are arbitrary and come to think of them as natural and the only way to do things. Percepions of women in business meeings ignored: some situaions may be deined in muliple ways: Percepions of women in business muliple interpretaions of their body language: self-fulilling prophecies: belief of predicion so strong that acts in a way that the predicions become true. Social construcion with real consequences: witch trials, communist trials, ghosts.
