SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thomas Theorem, Thomas Case, Iced Tea
5 Jan 2020
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Avoid reducing things in our lives solely to the psychological, economic, historical, evolutionary/biological. A chance to avoid reductionism-thinking that the world works in one day and that is that. Society is the reaction between culture and social structure. Social status: recognized social position that a person occupies. Importance:how we see ourselves and how others see us. Master status-dominates all other statuses-greatest role in identity formation, what we use to understand how others understand us. Status changes over time: see normie kwang (pg. Status consistency/inconsistency:statuses line up"/highly ranked in one category but not in others, leading to targeting in strategies. Marginalization:groups are assigned into categories that set them at or beyond the margins of dominant society. Affects the ability to participate in society the way that everyone has the right to. Set of behaviours and attitudes associated with a particular status. Role set:all of the roles attached to a status ( student", as peer, student, customer)
