SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Homophily, Role Theory, Role Conflict

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

Document Summary

Social structure: the way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships, statuses, social role, groups, social networks. Groups: people with similar norms, values, expectations who interact regularly, primary group, small group with intimate, face-to-face association/cooperation, family, secondary group. In u. s we have a decisive political culture: an unwillingness to speak to people who have different views than our own, mobile technology, internet have made this more powerful in social life. Social institution: organized patterns of belief and behavior centered on basic social needs, work, school, religion, voluntary organizations. Trying to get workers to come together for a revolution. Bourgeoisie: the ruling class under capitalism (replaced the aristocracy, owners of business, manage society, decide what is going to be produced, hire/fire people. Proletariat: the working class of wage-earning, free labor, held down by capitalist system, the protagonists, the people who must take action.