SOC102H1 Chapter 4: SP Notes - ch. 4, Social Structures
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Chapter four social structures: 105 p. 139. Social structure: any recurring pattern of social behaviour. Social institution: a social structure made of relationships to achieve certain. Social scripts: culturally constructed practice expected to be followed in social. Norms: rules about how people to should behave in situations. Sanction: a gesture used as a response to failure to observe a norm. social goals (education, hospitals, family). situations. Labelling theory: social groups create deviance by making rules whose infraction constitutes deviance and by applying these rules to particular people and labelling them as outsiders ; deviance is social constructed. Deviant subcultures: people who deviate repeatedly, formed groups. Self-fulfilling prophecy: if someone is told they"re deviant, they may become. Groups have systemic, self-maintaining features enabling them to survive. People need to take on special roles. Order is key to maintaining social structures. Status must be orderly: certain duties and privileges; hierarchical. Without hierarchy of statuses, there wouldn"t be stable roles.
