SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ethnomethodology
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5 dimensions: height, width, depth, time, social: sociological imagination thrives by exploring linkage between personal experience and surrounding society, person: a unique individual, whose distinctiveness is captured by his or her personality , character: a synonym for person, social environment: composed of real or imagined others to whom the person is connected, typically organized, organizations: collectivities characterized by structure that encourages patterns in individual action, status: culturally defined position or social location, status gives an organization structure, norms: generally accepted ways of doing things, organizations exist independently of individuals, roles: clusters of expectations about thoughts, feelings, and actions appropriate for occupants of a particular status, both freedom and constraint, role playing: conforming to existing performance expectations, constraint, role making: the creative process by which individuals generate role expectations and performances, display individuality and autonomy, social interaction: process by which role performers act in relation to others.
