Social Roles
Ascribed status
Achieved status
Social Constructionism
Status
Organic Solidarity
Gesellschaft
Social interaction
Social structure
Role Strain
Role Conflict
Gemeinschaft
Mechanical Solidarity
urban, large, impersonal cities where people demonstrate little commitment to the group or consensus on values
the underlying framework of society consisting of the positions people occupy and the relationships between them
Social cohesion is based on mutual interdependence in the context of extreme division of labor.
the social positions we occupy relative to others. In other words, our status is a product of our social interactions
a set of expected behaviors for people who occupy a given social status
close-knit, often rural environment in which strong personal bonds unite members
the difficulty that arises when the same social status imposes conflicting demands and expectations
earned through our actions, whether positive or negative, so it's a social position that is within our power to change
the situation that occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social statuses held by the same person
This is usually assigned to a person at birth by society at large and generally it can't be changed, such as race or heritage
People create society through their actions, and then become products of the social norms and values that they created
Societies in which social cohesion is based on shared experiences, knowledge, and skills in which things function more or less the way they always have; society runs like a well-oiled machine.
a reciprocal exchange in which two or more people read, react, and respond to each other
