Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Ascribed Status, Mickey Mantle, Achieved Status

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Social structure is a guide to everyday living. We rely on social structure to make sense of our everyday lives. Involves people communicating face to face or via computer and acting and reacting in relation to other people. Is structured around social institutions, statuses, roles, and norms. Complex sets of ideas, arrangements, beliefs, statuses, and roles. Each performs a crucial social function that another cannot. Can be found in all human societies in one form or another. (ie. macrostructure religion; but not all societies have the same religion) Social institutions provide the hard landscape for social interaction. It is the way in which society is organized into predictable relationships or patterns of social interaction (the way in which people respond to each other). These patterns are to some extent independent of the particular individual, they exert a force, which shapes behaviour and identity. Unlike psychology; which is the study of individual behaviour, sociology is the study of groups.

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