SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Traumatic Brain Injury, Normative Social Influence, Erving Goffman
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1 0 / 0 7 / 2 0 1 3 | 1. The two main problems in sociology is social inequality and order here we look at order. Social structure: a key concept in our discipline, yet the most elusive of sociological concepts. The oxford dictionary of sociology any recurring pattern of social behaviour; or the ordered interrelationships between the different elements of a social system. This has something to do with a functionalist perspective has something to do with small structures that are interrelated. Institutions: a society are clusters of norms and meanings, drawn from the culture, that define the expectations that people hold about each other"s behaviour. It is through these expectations that specific roles and reciprocal role relationships are defined. What we mean by an institution, which is part of social structure, it is a set of socially constructed norms and rules (varies from cultures)
