SO 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Achieved Status, Friending And Following, Physical Disability
5 Mar 2020
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The process by which people act and react in relation to others. Humans rely on social structure to make sense out of everyday situations. Teens use fb and twitter more than adults. After a friendship ends, girls are more likely than boys to take steps to unfriend, block or untag photos of former friends. Technology is allowing a certain culture and tendencies to prevail. Social position a person holds at a given time. Dance partner, boss, friends, harley club member, sports participant, business manager. Master status: involves special importance for social identity, often shaping a person"s life. In class, my master status is a student, it is socially defined. Works in the same ways as a class, gender, or race in defining people in others eyes. Behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status. Professor- teacher, and colleague role, father-paternal and civic role, husband-domestic and marital role, researcher- fieldwork and author role. Roles connected to two or more statuses.
