01:920:101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ascribed Status, Moral Relativism, Achieved Status
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Private troubles and public issues: personal troubles governed by public issues taken in context of each other, personal troubles are individual, willful activity and are conditions of public issues. Representative sample: when a small group dictates a larger group. Usually smaller g(cid:396)oups do(cid:374)"t speak fo(cid:396) a la(cid:396)ge(cid:396) populatio(cid:374), (cid:271)ut representative sample groups are the opposite where the smaller group is accurate in depicting the larger population. Generalized other (mead: how we think others will react to us. Moral entitlement (goffman: groups/people are raised and stigmatized in a certain way. When placed in different situations, however, they may feel either a sense of entitlement or a feeling of lesser entitlement than others. Children raised in richer households/middle class felt that they could ask for what they needed at a doctors office. Those coming from lower income households felt a lesser e(cid:374)title(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d felt the(cid:455) (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t ask fo(cid:396) (cid:449)hat the(cid:455) felt the(cid:455) (cid:374)eeded.
