SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Role Theory, Nonverbal Communication, Ascribed Status

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Ascribed and achieved statuses: ascribed status: a social position that someone receives at birth or assumes involuntarily later in life (daughter/aboriginal person, achieved statuse: a social position that someone assumes voluntarily and that reflects personal ability and effort(honour student, most statuses involve a combination of ascription and achievement, ascribed status affects achieved status (privileged family lawyer) The social construction of reality: while behaviour is guided by status and role, each human has considerable ability to shape what happens moment to moment, social construction of reality: the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction, social interaction amounts to negotiating reality, double life. Ethnomethodology: ethnomethodology: the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings, approach begins by pointing out that everyday behaviour rests on a number of assumptions, one good way to uncover the assumptions we make about reality is to purposely break the rules.