SOC 3223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Labeling Theory, Self-Justification, Emotional Labor
Document Summary
Test 30+ multiple choice and 2 out of 3 short essay. Humans effected by 4 different environmental systems-arranged like concentric circles. Microsystem: innermost-face to face interactions in settings such as school, home, etc. Mesosystem: interrelationships between 2 or more settings, exosystem. Interrelationship between 2 or more settings that affect a child. Even if child is not an active participant. Macrosystem: broad ideologies of a culture, subculture or social class. How features of the social structure influence personal relations. Kohn-effect of social structure on child rearing social class. The state-grandparents living at home with you (age-21, 16 driving) Adult socialization learning of adult roles. Life course and life cycles age graded life patterns embedded in social institutions and subject to historical change. Influence of biology and sociocultural factors (redshirt children) Age norms-drinking at 21, driving at 16. Role of cohorts-we are millennial, people our same age, babyboomers. Life course as structured roles that we occupy at certain times in our lives.
