SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Harold Garfinkel, Social Group, Homophily
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Meso: between micro and macro (places we were, sports team we participate in, groups of friends we spend time with, organizations we volunteered with) A great deal of regularity and order. Harold garfinkel: background expectancies how each social context comes with an associated set of common expectations. Trust: an essential and taken-for-granted part of social relations. Examples: lining up in queues, merging on the highway, using pedestrian street crossings. ^how social order constituted by members in everyday life. Investigation of social order is, above all, an investigation of the problems of permanence and change. Social group: a collection of two or more people who interact frequently with one another and share a sense of belonging. Can be composed of a set of people who identify with one another. Primary groups: groups where norms, roles, and statuses are agreed upon but not put in writing.
