SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Herbert Mead, Rite Of Passage, Symbolic Interactionism
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Midterm exam review notes: know and understand the fundamental theories of social structures. A social group in which norms, roles, and statuses are agreed upon but are not put into writing. Social interaction creates strong emotional ties, extends over a long period, and involves a wide range of activities. A social group that is larger and more impersonal than primary groups. Social interaction: creates weaker emotional ties, extends over a shorter period of time, involves a narrow range of activities. Role conflict occurs when two or more statuses held at the same time place contradictory role demands on a person. Role strain occurs when incompatible role demands are placed on a person in a single status: understand the steps for a sociological research. Step 6: publish result: know the main theoretical traditions in sociology. Human behaviour is governed by stable patterns of social relations (social structures) Social structures maintain (or fail to maintain) social stability.
