A person can no longer be around normal people. Hang out with people that accept their deviant ways. (assume a deviant role).

the behaviors,obligations, and privilleges attached to a certain status

-you play this

-roles as fences metaphor

-give us some freedom, but don't go beyond fences because then you break social norms.

A postions that someone occupies in a social structure

-dont exist unless in realtionship with other statuese

always changes-spouse-divorce cant be a daughter without parents explain people behavior

social relationship

distributions.

-gives social life it familar and predictable

-we can see the effects of social structure when someone breaks social norm, or discrimination against

-often hard to see in normal course of life

-diffrences in peoples behavior and attitude is not explain by biology, but rather by their postion is the social structure.

refers to how social life is organized

-gives direction and sets limits on behavior

-every society has one and it is what accounts for much of the diffrences in people exeperiences

not always effcincent-can be ineffective and counter productive

-become so huge and complex that they dont handle crisis well

-make people into robots by bureacracies

a set of roles that have to be followed- if they are broken, punishments will be enforced

rules and procedures

heirichal

efficent

little or no individual discretion

specialized tasks

Iron cage metaphor

Types of resistance as mechanismsm for change

-Passive resistance-sit ins and walk outs

-Counter Cultural Noncomfortist-sub cultural create their own world from the social norm -Punks and Bikers

-subtle sabotage- doing littel things to others, putting spiders into drinks.

ideological resistance-making fun of important thing, Dave Chappelle, Political cartoons

Violent Uprising- riots

1. Physical deformities

2. Bad personal character such as mental illness or criminality or drug addiction.

3. Race, religon, or nationality

Goffman left out gender

slavery

Caste

Estate

Class

-person status in society is determined by birth and is life long

someone born into a low status would always be a low status regardless of what they accomplish societies make sure boundaries remain unspoiled

Ex.-practice of endogamy- people dont marry outside of their caste status

India-religon-300 years

derived from property/ because people tend to admire the wealthy

-can be based on other factors such as

-achievements

you may also exchange presitge for property

EX.- A gold medalist may endorse wheaties ceral in exchange for profit

a system of beliefs & ideas that justify and rationalize inequality-are used to legitmate the status quo.

EX> family values are used to rationalize why a marriage should be between a man and a woman

Prejudice

Ideolgy

Micro Aggression

Discrimination

Instutionalized Discrimination

Prestige

an individual claim to social esteem or social honor.

also attached to educational ot occupational attianment

the way society is organized ditributes resources in unequal ways

-people are impacted by how the social is materially organized

the social process through which rewards and resources, such as wealth, power, are distributed unequally in a society.

-social inequalities that sysemic reproduced meaning that systems of inequality occur for long periods of time and it is very hard to change

Regulate our moral and ethincal behavior immoral adn unethical

-reflect core values

rules for socially acceptable behavior

-controls people behavior or apperances with a system of rewards and punishments

-make socially life predictable without them society wouldnt exist

is a consequences of being labelled

-effect self identity

-a negative social label that identifies people as deviant or "not normal"

-shapes our self image

-how we view ourselves and how we believe society view us.

a negative prejudgement or sterotype based on faulty assumptions about a social group

-negative cultural attitude also postive, sterotypes the virtues of a particular social group

De'jure- formally written into the law

De' facto- based on cultural customs and existings social arrangements

power people consider legitmate

-only exericised by those who voluntarily accpet it

Autonomy

Resources

Prestige

Authority

Power

Systematic practices and social arrangements that deny certain social groups access to resources, power, and authority.

-negative treatment of a minority group that is systemic discrimination

3 stages of the courtroom associates a person's status, power, authority, and access to resources

Audience Region

Lawyer Region

Judical Region

Workers aleinated from human nature

-brings about social change

-reminds us of what is right and wrong

-crime is normal because it exists in all societies

-crime is functional because it can bring about social change

-paradox-it is the deviants among us that holds society together

1- the individual is treated diffrently by society

2- it shapes the behavior of the individual because labeling stigmatizes and isoslates people

-a psychological conditon

-results from the structure of the capitalist systems

-workers fell isoslated powerless, meaningless

-economic labor, inequality , product process co-worker (isolated from)

abilty to control others

prestige into power is likely

Ronald Regan-actor to politicain

-wealth

-people who own this also controls land they can reward themselves/control their own benfit

property

power

prestige

Alienated form other workers

based primarily on money or material possesions

-industrilizatio encourages this systems

-social class system is revelant to this and it is similar to your own personal exeperiences

statrification system medieval Europe

-3 main groups or estates

-nobility, clergy, and the commoners

-nobilty- ruled and owned land

clergy- Roman Catholic-political power owned land and collected taxes from parish

commoners- or serfs-belonged to the land

-some people are owned by others

-based not on race, but on debt, punishment, or defeat in battle.

-temporary or permenant-not neccessarily passed on to ones children

happens when people break social norms

-if our behavior is percieved as deviant, people will tend to label us as deviant and respond with some form of punishment

folkways

mores

laws