SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Red Tape, Employee Retention, W. M. Keck Observatory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: John Irwin

Document Summary

Focuses on roles, identities, groups, organizations: roles /identities as the main ways in which social structure contrains and changes us. Basic element of social structure, who we are, how we lead our lives. Identities are the names we give ourselves (female, male, child , adolescent, adult, friend, worker, athelete; unsociable, ordinary, unusual: who we announce ourselves to be word. Appearance, that enable others to respond to or place us in particular ways. First placement birth; children learning meaning of this placement by others, identify with it, and begin to present themselves accordingly: adults cannot interact comfortably with others without mutual identification in terms of their gender; Role enactment vs role playing; fixed expectations vs interactionally as dynamic and evelopmental: social behavior as learned performance of scripts that follow agreement vs negotiated arrangement that people work out with one another. Role expectations; to coordinate our acts with others until those expectations are violated.