SOCI 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ascribed Status, In-Group Favoritism, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft
12 Apr 2016
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Social structure: patern of relaionships and interacions that endure through generaions. Class: groups of people who share a common economic condiion, interest, or relaionship to the means of producion. Social class: those individuals with similar access to power, wealth and presige. Social status: paricular social posiion that an individual holds. Ascribed status: entered into automaically without choice, usually at birth. Achieved status: acquired through one"s own individual acions and accomplishments in life. Status set: combinaion of all statuses for an individual. Master status: overrides other status characterisics in terms of how others view an individual. Status symbols: material items used to display one"s status. Role: cluster of behavioural expectaions associated with paricular social posiion, within a group or society. Role expectaions: socially determined behaviors expected of a person performing a role. Role performance: actual role behavior, though it does not always match expectaions.
