SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mass Media, Ascribed Status, Achieved Status
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Social structure: the macrolevel perspective: society: large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subjected to the same political authority and dominant culture expectations, social structure of society at a macrolevel: social institutions, groups, statuses, roles and norms, functional theorists: social structure creates order and predictability in a society + important for human development of positive self concept, conflict theorists: social structure help determine social relations in a society that may be the source of inequality and injustice, social marginality: the state of being part insider and part outsider in the social structure, coined by robert park to refer to persons who simultaneously share the life and traditions of two distinct groups (eg: immigrants, often results in stigmatization, stigma: any physical/social attribute or sign that so devalues a person"s social identity that it disqualifies that person from full social acceptance (erving.
