SOCIOL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lyft, Underconsumption, Rent-Seeking
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Relatively stable and enduring patterns of interactions among people. Informal (friends, family) formal (defined by roles and rules of interaction) (clear sense of how to get in and out of the group) (formal groups called orgs) Institutions (not organization but a grouping of orgs that share the same goals and have similar means to achieving those goals) (berkeley is an organization that is part of higher edu institution) In common is profit motive, all competing for control of markets, all trying to make themselves relevant to other soc structures. Statuses : patterns of unequal ranking (and, usually distribution of social resources) Every society has a status of inequality (cuts across orgs and institutions) Culture is about meaning people give to things (always conscious and basis of intent) Social patterns can be unconscious (social structure becomes normal without much thought to why it is) (relatively stable)
