SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Teenage Life

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: Terence James Mc Ginn

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High status receives great honor; low status receives low honor. Role: the collection of beliefs, values, attitudes, and norms that apply to a position holder (in relationship to other position holders. ) (my social job description. : roles create paths of least resistance for the position holder. This shapes how we behaves: holding multiple positions in overlapping systems can create role conflict. Role structure: (cid:862)the (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ships that li(cid:374)k statuses or entire systems to one another are the main part of what we think of as social structure. Every system has a role structure that consists of a mix of statuses and role relatio(cid:374)ships. (cid:863) (e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: wife/husband; add a child into play, and it becomes wife/husband, wife/father, father/mother, husband/mother, all four/daughter or son. ) Distribution: who gets what in terms of rewards, resources, power, etc. (sociologists are inte(cid:396)ested i(cid:374) ho(cid:449) (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ships a(cid:374)d dist(cid:396)i(cid:271)utio(cid:374)s of so(cid:272)ial st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)es (cid:272)(cid:396)eate (cid:862)paths of least (cid:396)esista(cid:374)(cid:272)e,(cid:863) a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) those paths of least (cid:396)esista(cid:374)(cid:272)e shape hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396).