SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ascribed Status, Role Theory, Role Conflict

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Identify elements of the social structure: define social interaction and the concepts by which we study it, explain social construction, distinguish ethnomethodology from dramaturgical analysis. Social interaction: how people react to one another, the process of interacting creates social reality. Social structure: refers to any relevantly pattern of social behaviour: guides our interactions. Status set: all of the status" a person holds at any given time. Role: role: behaviour we would expect from a status holder, the part you play, roles can often cause conflict with each other, role set: where the individual has a bunch of corresponding roles. Teacher role strain colleague role (con ict domestic role) parent (status 2) Social reality is constructed by us, we give it shape by interacting with each other. You cannot be certain things if it is not recognized by society, like status, if you do not hold the status of a judge you cannot sentence someone.