Sociology SOC-R 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Role Conflict, Emotion Work, Social Network
17 Feb 2017
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Chapter 5 social structure and social interaction. Social interaction = everyday encounters in which people communicate, interpret and respond to each others words or actions: face-to-face, online, or offline. Transnational relationships = sustained social interactions between two or more parties, each of whom lives in a different country: student studying aboard, teleservice workers. Social structure = a largely invisible system that coordinates and constrains behavior in broadly predictable ways. Social status = a human-created and defined position in society: female, male, immigrant, teenager, patient, sister, unemployed etc,. Ascribed statuses = social statuses that are the result of chance in that people exert no effort to obtain them. birth order, race, biological sex, and age. Achieved statuses = social statuses that are acquired through some combination of personal choice, effort or ability: marital status, occupation, educational attainment. Status set = all the statuses any one person assumes. Role = the behavior of a status in relation to another status.
