SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ascribed Status, Social Statics, Achieved Status
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: individual behavior is shaped by social forces and situational contingencies. It is easy to think these institutions would exist still without people, but we each have a role to play in maintaining or changing these social institutions. Globalization: the process through which people"s lives all around the world become increasingly interconnected. If an aspect of social life does not contribute to society"s survival, it will eventually disappear. O"brien, shared meaning as the basis of humanness: Symbolic interactionists are interested in the process of assigning meaning to actions and in the responses that follow. Rather than responding to the physical environment, humans impose symbolic interpretations on experiences and draw conclusions based on these interpretations. A symbol defines both what something is and what it is not. Naming consists of a label, an evaluation, and a recommended course of action: mediates between stimulus and response.
