SOC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thomas Theorem, Role Theory, Role Conflict
5 Jan 2020
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Society is the reaction between culture and social structure. Social status: recognized social position that a person occupies. Limits opportunities and restricts the freedom-inequality: affects ability to participate in society the way everyone has a right to. Interpretation of a situation causes action: it is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. , w. i. Thomas: symbolic interactionist, against structural functionism, dorothy swaine, thomas sociologist, demographer. Definition of the situation: successful interaction = shared understanding of situation. In certain contexts, people define situations differently, often in contradictory ways, based on their own subjective experiences. Self-fulfilling prophecy (merton: thomas theorem supports this notion, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true merton. Beliefs act as social forces: labeling, negative labels applied to a status; powerful master status created and internalized, kids are delinquents" corresponding behavior occurs.
