SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Satisfaction, Railways Act 1921, Émile Durkheim
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Grouping of individuals with some awareness that they are member of the group. The relations among the individual parts of the entity: vertical: people who have the most say, hierarchal: some of them form groups. What people think and do is relevant to a particular identity: beliefs: broad ideas about the social entity and how the world works. E. g. education will get you a better job, and uoft will get you even better: values: ideas about what"s important. E. g. religion might have the value that the meat needs to be blessed before eating it: norms: commonly accepted and expected behaviors in the social entity. E. g. unwritten norm is that class is at 12, but actually starts at 12:10pm: symbols: objects & behaviors that illustrate the beliefs & values. How and why something happens, and how it works. E. g. higher the pay would lead to less likely you would quit your job and higher job satisfaction.
