SOC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Erving Goffman, Role Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

People are choosing to be single even though our society believes people must couple up. Introduction: finding our place in the social structure. Social structure - any recurring pattern of social behaviour, or to the ordered interrelationships between the different elements of a social system: not entirely visible, patterns that people express in their behaviour. Reveal their expectations based on social norms/social values. Social institutions - kind of social structure, made up of a number of relationships and used to achieve certain social goals: schools, hospitals, family, marriage. Social scripts - the unwritten guidelines that people follow during social situations. Social scripts are built off of social norms - rules about how to behave in social situations. Sanction - gesture used to reinforce social norms: failure to follow norms and you get a glare. Have different scripts because you play multiple roles - expected behaviours of an individual in a social position, and the duties/responsibilities associated with that position.