SOCL 2001 : Exam 2
Document Summary
Microsociology- analysis of social life that focuses on social interaction and details of every day life: typically used by symbolic interactionists. Social interaction- one person"s actions influencing someone else; usually refers to what people do when they are in one another"s presence, but also includes communications at a distance: typical patterns of a group, guides our behavior. Class: income, education, job prestige, large numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and education and who work at jobs that are roughly comparable in prestige. Status: position of any prestige level that someone occupies. Similarities between class and status: class and status guide ideas and behaviors. Differences: status includes more (class is part of status, status set, occupy several positions at the same time. Are class, status, and status sets constant: no. Status symbols: indicators of a status, especially items that display prestige, positive, wedding rings, negative, jail clothes.
