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Micro

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.

Weber

Socioeconomic Status

C. Wright Mills

power elite

Class

Role performance: what we see

Marx's ideas on Alienation

rules of society stacked in favor of privileged few who stay on top

From the product

social capital (networks & institutional relationships)

and we know we're being observed, so we think about how we are being perceived: Impression management

From the process

Economic capital (financial)

From others

Front stage vs backstage, setting matters, props reinforce impression, need shared reality (what role is everyone?) cultural "scripts"

Cultural capital (Ways of speaking & dress)

From yourself

Marx's critique of capitalism

Class struggle

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

Worker's revolt

ie: it's the norms, values and behavior we expect to go along with a status (social position)

Super structure

Stealing, lying to get back in the game.

government, family religion, culture

Conflict Theory

Communism

No govt. needed

Socialism

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

Base

Macro

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)

Wealthy (bourgeois class) own means of production

use government, laws, authority to maintain and expand

Symbolic Interaction

POWER

worker class

Mead & Goffman

What is

Society & how does it work?

social

interactions

meanings are interpreted by a person when dealing with the thing in a specific circumstance.

Macro

Society is greater than the sum of its parts

Structural Functionalism

Dynamic equilibrium

family

What is Society?

Durkheim

education system

law enforcement

Mechanical solidarity

Manifest functions:

  • socialization: learning norms and values of workplace and society
  • Social control: respect for authority and law.
  • Social mobility: Social placement

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:

  • courtship
  • social networks
  • working in small groups
  • generation gap
  • political integration/activism

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

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