SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Social Environment, Personal Boundaries
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Sociological imagination explores linkages between personal experience and the surrounding society. Person: a unique individual, whose distinctiveness is captured in his or her personality : character: synonym of person. Social environment: composed of real or imagined others to whom the person is connected: organized, structured. Organizations: collectivities characterized by social structure that encourages patterns in individual action (eg. classroom: social space where individuals find themselves connected to others. Status: culturally defined position or social location (defined by culture: gives organizations its structure. Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things (defined by culture: connections between statuses. Culture is a blueprint for social organization: people occupy statuses, people are not statuses. Roles: clusters of expectations about thoughts, feelings, and actions appropriate for occupants of a particular status: role-playing: involves conforming to existing performance expectations (constraint, role-making: creative process by which individuals generate role expectations and performances (freedom) Social interaction: process by which role performers act in relation to others.
