SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Herbert Blumer, Role Theory, Social Constructionism

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Mary- Anne Kandrack

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Sociology 1200 chapter 4: enduring, predictable patterns of social relations among different people or elements of a social system. Social institution: a kind of social structure made up of a number of relationships and used to achieve certain social goals. Examples: schools, marriage, churches, hospitals, family, social movements. Social scripts: culturally constructed and socially enforced practices that people are expected to follow when interacting with one another. Social scripts are based on norms: rules or expectations about how people are to behave in particular social situations. Norms are reinforced through sanctions: gestures used to reward or punish behaviour. 1928) devised labelling theory to explain how certain roles come to be (cid:271)randed (cid:862)de(cid:448)iant. (cid:863) Role: the expected behaviour of an individual in a particular social position and the duties associated with that position, roles shape our behaviour and sense of self. Status: a person"s so(cid:272)ial position, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h carries specified rights and obligations, people occupy statuses but play roles.