SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead, Robert A. Heinlein, Role Theory
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* learn how social structures, roles, and identities influence our behaviour. * find out how the size of a group affects the way people behave within it. * differentiate between the functions of gangs, teams, and bands, while recognising how each group is similar in their goals. * understand the processes that occur within beaucracies. * last chapter, we discussed all those non-human factors that influence how we get along with one another. * in this chapter, we will discuss some of the human factors that influence our social relations. > what we call social script and social forms. * social scripts are those culturally constructed, socially enforces practices that we are all expected to follow when we are all expected to follow when we interact in social institutions. * social forms are those social arrangements that arise out of interaction often below the cultural radar (below people"s consciousness) * georg simmel associate with social forms a lot.
