SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erving Goffman, Ethnomethodology, Role Theory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Chapter 5 society, social structure, and interaction. Social structure: the macrolevel perspective: diverse theoretical approaches have different interpretations of how structure operates. Functional theorists (e. g. , durkheim) emphasize that social structure creates order and predictability in a society. Conflict theorists (e. g. , marx) maintain that social structure helps determine social relations in a society and may be the source of inequality and injustice. Status: status: a socially defined position in a group or society characterized by certain expectations, rights, and duties, statuses exist independently of the specific people occupying them, status does not mean high position. Status set: a status set is made up of all the statuses that a person occupies at a given time. A person may be a psychologist, a professor, a wife, a mother, a roman catholic, a school volunteer, an alberta resident, and a french canadian. Master status: master status: a term used to describe the most important status a person occupies.