SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Structural Dynamics, Homophily, Harold Garfinkel

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Caron

Document Summary

All social context comes with an associated set of common expectations. Trust is an essential and taken-for-granted (until it is broken) part of social relations. Social order is constituted by members in everyday life. Ie) lining up in queues, pedestrian street crosses. How individuals are brought together within larger configurations of people. Who is the we? statuses ie)family, sports fans. Composed of people who identify with one another to adhere to defined norms/roles/ Social group: two or more people who interact frequently and share a sense of belonging. Primary groups: groups where norms/roles/statuses are agreed upon but not put in words. Strong emotional ties over a long period & involves wide range of activities ie) family. Secondary groups: social interaction in narrow range of activities over shorter period of time that create weaker emotional ties. In-group members: those who belong to a group (typically draw boundaries from out-groups)