SOCL 2001 Chapter : Structure, Groups, And Organizations
Document Summary
Social status: status- position you have, does not connote high or low, ascribed vs achieved, status set- set of statuses, master status- the status that sticks out/takes priority over the others (lsu student, lsu professor, ex-con) Five types of social interaction: exchange, cooperation, competition, conflict, coercion. 110: statistical- all families with 2 kids and 2 parents, categorical- redheads, aggregate- football crowd, associational- democratic or republican party, social- family. In group- what you are: out group- the enemy. Instrumental vs expressive leaders (male vs female: 4 or more usually gains a leader. Instrumental leader- task oriented leader (group of 6 people, leader divides up work: expressive leader- keep things going, psychological aspect of group (one telling jokes, older times: usually male- instrumental, usually female- expressive leader: but more. Instrumental and expressive usually different people modern its instrumental- female, expressive- male (gender doesn"t matter)
