SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Achieved Status, Online Dating Service, Signify

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1

Document Summary

Enduring, predictable patterns of social relations among different people or elements of a social system. Social institution: a kind of social structure made up of a number of relationships used to achieve certain social goals. Ex. schools, marriage, churches, hospitals, family, social movements. Social scripts: culturally constructed and socially enforced practices that people are expected to follow when interacting with one another. Based on norms - rules or expectations about how people are to behave in particular social situations. Norms are reinforced through sanctions - gestures used to reward or punish behaviours. Relatively stable (ex. recurring) patterns of social behaviour that occur because: People learn (i. e. are socialized into) different behaviours and attitudes based on their locations within the social structure. Of the relationship between people, groups and institutions. How and why social life is so patterned, despite the fact that people are so diverse (different backgrounds, opportunities, classes ) and yet they have the same outcome.