SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ascribed Status, Resocialization, Social Stratification
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Social circumstances of life powerfully influence identity. Today more autonomy but less sense of purpose and fewer enduring social ties. Resocialization: deliberate attempt to correct or instill particular values and behaviours in individual or group. Ex: federal govt wanting to make changing genders and the therapy illegal. Settings in which people are isolated from rest of society for set period. Ex: military, convents, prisons, authority schools, psychiatric hospitals all want to resocialize you to what the find is the best way for you to live. Total institution re-socializes inmate into new identity by: Refers to persistent patterns of social inequality in a society. Is perpetuated by the way wealth, power, and prestige are distributed and passed on from one generation to the next. Status: rank or position in a social hierarchy. Inherited status, being born into a rich/poor household. Ex: going to university and getting degree then job. For example, marrying into a royal family.
