SOCI 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Harry Harlow, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft
11 Apr 2016
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Society is a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same poliical authority and dominant cultural expectaion. Social interacion: the process by which people act toward or respond to other people. Social structure: the stable patern of social relaionships that exist within a paricular group or society. Social marginality: the state of being part insider and part outsides in the social structure. Sigma: any physical or social atribute or sign that so devalues a person"s social idenity that it disqualiies that person from full social acceptance. Status: a socially deined posiion in a group or society characterized by certain expectaions, rights, and duies. Status set: a term used to describe all the statuses that a person occupies at a given ime. Example: marie may be a psychologist, a professor, a wife, a mother, a catholic, etc. All these socially deined posiions consitute her status set.
