Social equals.

• Provide us with social support
• Choose friends who like us
• Least amount of influence

Pass along info to be successful (Formal).

• Teach discipline
• Hidden circulon (Male vs Female)
• Reinforces class

• Has a tremendous effect on us.
• One way can't interact.

• Social Class
• Sex: Male vs Female

The roles that we learn through being socalized.

Hormones produce differences in anatomy.

• Look at gender roles
• Tribes of New Guinea
• Biological characteristics are observed all over the world.

Translated: Hatred of Women

Most cultures raise male and females as different species. Anything considered female is disvalued.

Ex. Males can't wear female clothes without being ridiculed, but girls can wear mens clothes without ridicule.

To anticipate roles that you will occupy in the future. 

• Provide what will be expected of us in the future.
• Family & Media
• Learn what is expected of us by watching role models.

Controlled by the powerful.

Ex. Media tells us what they want us to hear.

Inoculation Proccess Views - Too Simplistic.

Behave based on our interpretation of the culture.

Know based on their status

Ex. Do you know the Dean, Yes but not on a personal level.

Groups that I belong to.

Ex. Hockey team, the Celtics.

Groups you don't belong to.

Ex. Olympic teams.

Statuses start with the third person. (Triad)

5 = Ideal Discussion Group

7 = Begins to fragment or leaders emerge.

• People develop primary groups within
• Informal structures develop within formal structures
• Ideal
• Real

Being so tied to the roles that you lose sight of the goals.

ex. religion

• Work expands to fill time available

It is the way it has always been done.

(Difficult to change)

Written rules. Tells who has the power to do anything.

(Much easier to change)

• The person being followed has some supernatural power.
• Based in personality.
• The things that changes society.

• Extensive Influence
• Profit and Promote particular world view
• Not coercion

No theory explains all deviances.

• Functionalist
• Conflict
• Interationists

Conformists - CEOs, Doctors, etc.

Ritualist - Most of Americans (over and over again)

Innovator - Achieve goals by iligitamate reasons

Retreatists - Withdrawl from society

• We learn deviance the same way we learn non-deviance
• Subcultural theories, cultural transmission.
• Learn deviant norms from people who aren't deviant.

• Social Bond Theory
• Can align itself with anything, leans towards functionalism.
• Not interested in explaining deviance.
• Trys to explain non-deviance

• Ideology of Individualism - Everyone is responsible for their success or lack of success.
• Necessary to Motivate people - if you are motivated you want to participate.

The pattern of the way things are done.

• own fault
• Natural - unalterable
• Immoral to question the system.

Division of Labor.

• Eevryone is different nobody or thing is better, just different.

• Has to be something different for societies to stratify on
• Necessary to occur.
• Social differation is not the case.

• Achieved status is possible
• Social Mobility
• Open class
• closed

• Horizontal - change job but don't go up or down
• Vertical - up or down
• Lateral - Moving to a new geographic location.

Rich - Snobby, only care about themselves

Poor - Dirty, drug dealers.

The Other America (Pockets of Poverty)

The New Other America