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Soc Psych Exam 3
Soc Psych Exam 3
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
12/06/2011

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social structure
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affects personal psychology; self-esteem, attributions for success failure, what it takes to achieve that place
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social structure personality theory
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taken from survey work, an attempt in lab to create experiences in lab ot mimic these situations
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values
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things we consider to be important in partners, respect about the self, in every day life
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characteristics of values
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benefits to society, examples: neatness, good sense, obedience, responsibility, curiousity, order & predictability
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examples of educated persons, autonomous professionals
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responsibility, good sense, curiousity
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what elements of a job would drive importance of different values
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1. closeness of supervision
2. routinization
3. substantive complexity
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values important to autonomous, complex value jobs
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1. responsibility
2. good sense
3. curiousity
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values important to less autonomous jobs
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1. neatness
2. obedience
3. conservatism/ obedience
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do jobs cause this, or is it the reverse?
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longitudinal data...results: people with particular values SELECT some occ. values....values at time 1 predict values at time 2, occupational type changes values over time
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other reasons that values are different in different occupations
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rewards are received for perfoming to these values
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occupational status attainment
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pay and prestige
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merit
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what you know
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social connections
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who you know
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"who you know" factors
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socioeconomic status, significant others, aspirations
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direct correlation effect vs. indirect effect
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shaped by background, work through something else (indirect)i.e.SES through aspirations to occupational status
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if meritocracy only...
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SES doesn't matter, significant others don't matter........rather grades, measured ability shape aspirations and educational attainment
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people in other occupations
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also have values from other occupations, but the values we EMPHASIZE predicted by occ type and educ
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longitudinal research on values say:
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people select IN based on existing values AND they became enhanced
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SES (in regards to educ attainment)
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is indirect, not a straight line, rather....shaping,educ ach, aspiration
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effects on jobs
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alienation, self-estrangement
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alienation
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disconnected from, uninvolved in social world, no control
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self-estrangement
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don't perceive duties as having a reward, no value, not exciting
(different from powerlessness "people like me have no say")
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experiencing stress related to:
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occupation, gender roles, marriage
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effects of occupation on stress
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gender roles
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higher numbers, but could be because women are more likely to report
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marriage and stress
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most research says positive relationship between marriage and less stress
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key buffers against stress
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social networks, critical to health outcomes
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Marx economic theories
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having closeness to what you produce has psychological and social ramifications....still holds
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what networks provide
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strategies for coping, actual support, esteem support, informational support, instrumental support, perceived support
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strategies for coping
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e.g. through modeling, what they teach you
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actual support
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emotional support..show they care
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esteem support
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positive feedback
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informational support
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advice
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instrumental support
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money, labor,time
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perceived support
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feel that they have someone to call rather than actual numbers
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