SOC 656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Serena Williams, Ascribed Status, Role Theory
22 Sep 2019
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Lecture 3 - dressing to belong: social groups. Dressing to belong: social groups: govern our interactions, express our place in the social structure. Comes with expectations of how to look and act. All your statuses make up your status set. If it doesn"t meet with social standards, it can be an ascribed status. Serena williams will always be known as a tennis player. Individual responds to social situations and expectations for that status. Changing the role to fit your own criteria. There is tension between two or more statuses (of an individual) Tension between the roles are connected with single status. Expectations of role put one in an impossible situation. You have to allocate time to many classes. You don"t always have interaction with other members of this group. Large scale: primary and secondary groups, primary. Family, partner, best friends: most interaction, emotional ties, personal relationships.
