SOC400 Lecture 8: Social Satus and Roles
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Context: the lager historical circumstances and social forces that bring people together for social interaction. Content: the cultural frameworks (norms, values, beliefs) that guide social interaction, specifically behavior, dialogue and interpretations of events. Recall: invisible systems that coordinate human behavior in relatively predictable ways and can shape: relationships, identities, barriers preventing access to resources and the easy by which those barriers can be broken. Social status: human-created and defined position within a social structure: ascribed status results from chance". E. g. gender, can"t help the way you are born: achieved status results from choice or effort. People act based on social status: younger people are often taken less seriously. Master status: status that never changes: such as having been the president. Roles: behavior expected of a status in relation to another status: role conflict (conflicting roles across two or more stratuses)
