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Communication: exchange of meaning through symbols & language is primary
way we interact with social world
we interact with things based on meaning ascribed to them.
Socioeconomic Status
Role performance: what we see
Marx's ideas on Alienation
rules of society stacked in favor of privileged few who stay on top
social capital (networks & institutional relationships)
and we know we're being observed, so we think about how we are being perceived: Impression management
Economic capital (financial)
Front stage vs backstage, setting matters, props reinforce impression, need shared reality (what role is everyone?) cultural "scripts"
Cultural capital (Ways of speaking & dress)
Marx's critique of capitalism
Complaining
1. Private Ownership of industry (your own kisses)
2. Free competition (game)
3. Unequal economic classes (some have more kisses)
Role: pattern of behavior
ie: it's the norms, values and behavior we expect to go along with a status (social position)
Stealing, lying to get back in the game.
government, family religion, culture
No govt. needed
Status: position a person occupies in a setting
COMPETITION
economy
Govt redistribute
Ascribed: female, old person
Achieved: student, drop out
master status: status that takes over
role conflict: different roles (working student)
role strain: within one role (stress of being a student)
Social Constructions
Marx
habitualization: we do stuff, because people before us did stuff...
Thomas theorem: if we say it's real, it has real consequences
self-fulfilling prophecy (like a run on a bank)
use government, laws, authority to maintain and expand
Mead & Goffman
social
interactions
meanings are interpreted by a person when dealing with the thing in a specific circumstance.
Society is greater than the sum of its parts
Dynamic equilibrium
family
Durkheim
education system
law enforcement
Mechanical solidarity
Manifest functions:
low division of labor
strong kin-ties
tradition
same work = think the same
Social facts: laws, morals, values, religious beliefs VS Institutions: school, family
Anomie: collective norms weak, little social/moral guidance
communal beliefs, morals & attitudes:
collective conscious.
Organic solidarity
Latent functions:
collective behavior
high division of labor
individualistic
different values can co-exist
laws formalize morals
Can feel more alienated, unless advanced enough to create new social norms.
social integration