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Social Structure. Building Blocks of Social Structure. What Guides our Interaction. Society as a Structure Status Role. Status. A socially defined position in a group or society How do I fit in? Who am I: a definition Mr. Phillips Status: Teacher, Father, Student, City Councilman .
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Building Blocks of Social Structure
What Guides our Interaction • Society as a Structure • Status • Role
Status • A socially defined position in a group or society How do I fit in? Who am I: a definition • Mr. Phillips Status: Teacher, Father, Student, City Councilman
Ascribed and achievedstatus • Ascribed Status • Just who you are • You don’t have to do anything to have ascribed status • Based on inherited traits Teenager, Girl, African American Can you name any other?
Achieved Status • Acquired through your own efforts, skills • An earned title • You have CONTROL over this status • Teacher, Actor, Basketball Player, Businessman • Can you name more?
Master Status • What you are known best for by others • Can be Achieved or Ascribed (King) • -In the US, MOST are achieved • Father, Doctor, • Fireman, Banker • Sith Lord • More?
ROLES • How you perform in your status • Bring your status to life
roles • Reciprocal Roles • Define the interaction between related statuses -Doctor – Patient -Father - Mother -Customer - Salesman
Roles Expectations and Performances • Role Expectations – • Expected behaviors of a person performing a role -What society expects of the that role • Role Performance – • Actual behavior of a person performing a role • -Does not always match society and others expectations
Role Conflict and Role Strain • Role Set: All the different roles that are attached to a person Role Conflict: Fulfilling one role makes it difficult to perform another role Role Strain: Difficulty meeting role expectations of a single status.
Social Institutions • Status and roles determine the structure of groups in society. • A group that forms when statuses are ORGANIZED to meet the basic needs of society. • -provide physical and emotional support • -sharing knowledge • -producing and selling goods • -maintaining social control
Types of Social Interaction
Social Interaction How you interact with others while playing a role The Key: INTERACTION
Social Interaction Exchange -Interaction between people in where an effort in to receive a reward or return • -Most Basic type of interaction Reciprocity -If you do something for others they do something for you -Please & Thank You
Social Interaction • Exchange THEORY • People are motivated by SELF INTEREST in interactions with others • *People do things primarily in an attempt to gain some form of REWARD
Competition • Two or more people or GROUPS oppose each other to reach a goal that only one can attain. • Achieving a the goal • Very common in western society • A good thing if people follow accepted rules of society
Conflict • Deliberate act • -Control another person or group by force • -Harm another person • -Very few rules of conduct • Sources of conflict War Disagreements within groups Legal disputes Clashes over ideology
Cooperation • Two or more people or groups work together to achieve a goal • Goal will benefit more than one person • A very social process
Accommodation • The state of balance between cooperation and competition • -give a little - take a little Compromise: When both parties give up something Truce: Stops conflict until compromise is met Mediation: Calling in third party to reach agreement
Types of Societies Group: A set of people who interact on the basis of shared expectations and have some degree of common identity
