SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sexual Orientation, Social Class, Symbolic Interactionism
5 Apr 2017
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Week 4, lecture 7: the social psychology of stratification. The ways in which individuals or groups are ranked in society, reflecting different amounts of power, status and prestige. Sociological social psychology emphasizes stratification to a much greater degree than psychology. Symbolic interactionists are concerned with how we create and maintain definitions of different classes of people. Processes of developing and maintaining differences within and among groups of people. Social class- a segment of society whose members hold similar amounts of resources and share values, norms and identifiable lifestyle. Social structure/personality scholars focus on how structural conditions often related to work, education, family affect people. Group processes perspective examine how stratification systems from a larger society become reproduced in groups. Who we interact with (status of the human resources accessible) Symbolic interactionists have argued that interacting partners usually have different levels of power. Have to take the role of the other. More powerful people do not need to understand their coworkers:
