SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ascribed Status, Ethnomethodology
5 Oct 2016
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All reading and lecture material weeks 1,2 and 3. The study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings. Entomologists are interested in disturbing normal situations of interaction to uncover taken for granted rules e. g. space rules (taken for granted rules) Ethnomethodology: how people make sense of the world around them. Violating everyday rules allows us to discover social order. They have for example a person sitting down on a public bench and someone comes and sits abnormally close to the person to see the reaction of the person that was originally sitting there. This shows the norms of behaviour and this experiment will violate the norms of society. Status- a social position that an individual occupies. Status defines who and what we are in relation to others, a person who holds more than one status simultaneously. simultaneously. Ascribed status: status one is born with (someone being born into a rich or celebrity family)
