SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Homophily, Role Theory, Role Conflict

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

Document Summary

Social structure the way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships. Socially defined positions within a large group or society, from the lowest to the highest position. A person can hold several statuses at the same time. Social role set of expectations for people who occupy a given position in society. Role conflict: when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person. Role strain: difficulties that arise when the same social position imposes conflicting demands and expectations. Groups people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact, regularly. Primary group: small group with intimate, face-to-face association and cooperation. Secondary group: impersonal groups with little social intimacy or mutual understanding. Social networks social ties that link a person directly to others, and indirectly to still more people. Weak ties: connections to people we barely know. Multiplex ties: overlapping ways of knowing the same people. Proletariat the working class of wage-earning, free labor.