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| focus on broad features of society. such as social class. and relationships of groups to one and another |
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| deals with analyses of concepts like stratification by income, age, gender, race, ethnicity; organizations (functionally circumscribed social structures) and communities. In between micro and macro |
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| focuses on social interaction= what people do when they come together |
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| typical patterns of a group. Social Structure guides our behavior. You behave a certain way in class, church, football game etc. this is because of social structure |
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| Culture(in regards to Social Structure) |
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| you look and act like those in your culture. In this way culture helps guide your behavior |
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| social class(in Regards to social structure) |
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| based on income,education,and occupational prestige. This not influences behaviors but also ideas and attitudes. |
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| social status(in Regards to social structure) |
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| your status controls behavior, like you wouldn't expect a cop to be doing heroin |
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| all statues or positions you occupy. me=male student, white, etc. |
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| the status that is seen above all. could be or better or worse than the status you want to be your master |
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| a status you inherit, or are involuntarily given later in life |
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| a position that is earned, accomplished or involves at least some effort on indviduals part |
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| something that idenifies your status. police badge or nice clothes etc. |
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| high in some dimensions of social class and low in another. judge that drinks and drives |
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| the behaviors, obligations, and priviliges attached to a status. lay our what is expected of people |
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| like status inconsintency, your roles make you have to do something that goes against one of your other rules |
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| standard or usual ways that a society meets its basic needs.social instutions: family, religion, etc. normalizes life. example wedding and all the things that go with it cakes and etc. |
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| replacing members, socializing new members, producting and distributing, goods and services, preserving order, providing a sense of purpose |
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| small towns, unity that people feel as a result of performing the same or similar tasks. Tonnes used gemeinschaft |
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| cities, the interdependence that results from the division of labor, people depending on others to fufill jobs. tonnes used gesellschaft |
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| social integration within social space |
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| how we closely(distance) we interact with people, about 7ft for strangers, 3-5 friends, intimate gf, politician much further away |
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| public distance, don;t metion a stigma. stigma would be like being crippled or ugly |
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| something about a peroson you shouldnt bring up to them. basically like don't call someone ugly |
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| deference and demeanor(Erving Goffman) |
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| defernce- i.e. in a city you don't stop a muggin, because you figure some else will defering responibility to them. demeanorr=socialy appropriate way to behave |
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| we are all on a stage. Presenting to people as appropriate as you can |
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| when people are around you, how you act |
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| in the car;alone and how you behave then |
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| helping people not be socially embarrased |
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| the study of how poeple use commonsense understandings to make sense of everyday life. background assumptions we take advantage of ask why and the dinner table for example |
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| social construction of reality |
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| insane if you dont follow it, established rules, must folow to fit in society. if people define, teamwork keeps it together;gynecology exam situations as real they are real in consequence |
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| How do norms make society possible |
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| they make life predictable so that we are comfortable in everyday life |
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| siblings or friends etc. making fun of clothes |
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| code of conduct; written words to live by, our laws |
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| What replaces trust in organic solidarity? |
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| certification coding. the mechanic has been certified so you know he knoes what is doing |
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| can be informal or formal;Group, Leader, Judge etc, someone who has the power to control social structure. Instiutions can be but they must act through an agent |
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| groups we associate with lead us with an excess of definitions therefore it depends on socialization, some are more inclined to be deviant than others |
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internal and external control.
internal control=conscience, values, how you were socialized.
external=police, fence, something that externally keeps you from committing a crime |
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| the label you are give eventually become the label you embrace. Social Belief in Label is more important than the label, it changes their social reaction to you and people's perception. |
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| techniques of neutralization |
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| ways of thinking to or rationilizing to help people deflect( or neutralize) societys norms |
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| life isn't fair in a bad situation it is much more reasonable to commit crime. All have strains to obey laq, but also strains to break it |
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| Mertons Adaptations basically for moving up in life |
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1)if you are born into role; you just have to conform. i.e. Kennedys, ruling class
2)Conformity-outside of law;innovating usually criminally
3)pleasure, just living to find some pleasure
4) ritiualism, playing lottery something to give you satisfaction, gets you by til you die |
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| invented social status as a result of limited oppurtunity |
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| crime committed by a person in a position of trust. wall street |
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| likelihood of victimazation |
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| percent of having a crime committed against you, highest by someone you know |
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| has been decreasing same levels everywhere, can;t attribute it to anything like higher incarcaration or political state. |
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| Medicalization of Deviance |
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| we medicate the crazy people now. Bipolar, Schitzos ,etc. |
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