SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Theatricality
Sociology 1
FALL SEMESTER 2018
Avery Gordon
[email protected]csb.edu
Lecture 7 Notes: Ideology and Social Institutions
* Ideology and Socialization
* ideology: cultural ensemble of beliefs, values and commonsense we’re taught is real
and right. Sets the limits around which the possible and the impossible are conceived
* Socialization: the process through which people learn the expectations of the society
and its values
* We’re only held back by ourselves…self advancement is more important than social
progress…inequality reflects the value of the winner…political democracy and economic
inequality are compatible (p. 43)
* an ideology is not just a set of ideas, but lived ideas—like a skin that develops us
* Social Roles
* individuals are carriers of socially defined identities arising from institutionally defined
roles
* social roles are the routine and expected behavior associated with a given status in
society
* bring a degree to individuality or theatricality
* these roles are not, for the most part, individually determined
* social control-how we are brought into conformity with a society’s dominant
expectations and values
* sometimes its subtle, but sometimes its brutal
* Carol Gilligan-how young females sort of went—PINK?
* perplexed by how confident, physically active females-were propelled to go PINK, even
Document Summary
* ideology: cultural ensemble of beliefs, values and commonsense we"re taught is real and right. Sets the limits around which the possible and the impossible are conceived. * socialization: the process through which people learn the expectations of the society and its values. * we"re only held back by ourselves self advancement is more important than social progress inequality reflects the value of the winner political democracy and economic inequality are compatible (p. 43) * an ideology is not just a set of ideas, but lived ideas like a skin that develops us. * individuals are carriers of socially defined identities arising from institutionally defined roles. * social roles are the routine and expected behavior associated with a given status in society. * bring a degree to individuality or theatricality. * these roles are not, for the most part, individually determined. * social control-how we are brought into conformity with a society"s dominant expectations and values.
