SOCI 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Impression Management, False Consciousness, Erving Goffman
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It is said that americans believe in individualism more than other industrialized nations. Americans tend to believe in individualism more than other industrialized nations. Americans, we tend to blame misfortune on our personal deficiencies rather than looking at broader social factors that could have impacted an outcome: be able to define social structure, society, culture, institution, and ethnocentrism. Social structure: the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships. Society: a population of people living in the same geographic area who share a culture and common identity and whose members are subject to the same political forces. Culture: language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a society. Institution: stable set of rules, statuses, groups, and organizations such as the institutions of education, family, politics, religion, health care, or the economy. That provides a foundation for behavior in some major area of social life.
