Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Status, Carbon Copy, Mcdonaldization
1 Apr 2019
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Social interaction: involves communication among people acting and reacting to one another, either face to face or via computer, statuses - social location (we occupy a status but it"s not who we are) Ex: student, sister, daughter, girlfriend, etc: roles - ways of doing things. Social status: recognized social position a person occupies, responsibilities and expectations imposed to establish our relationship to others. Ex: your gender, etc: status hierarchy, status rankings from high to low, based on prestige and power, inequality stems, status consistency, all that status hierarchies line up. Ex: female, mother, housewife: status inconsistency, one status is highly ranked in one status category but not in others. Ex: women as doctors - in the past: hermaphrodites (now called intersexed, some of each sex chromosomes. Social roles: set of behaviours and attitudes, associated with a particular status, can vary across cultures.
