SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Irving Janis, Mcdonaldization, Erving Goffman
15 Mar 2017
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Chapter 4: socialization: the self and social identity. Objective: outline the basic components of social structure, explain how social institutions contribute to social structure and assess the merit of weber"s ideal type of bureaucracy in modern society. Ascribed: social positions that people inherit at birth or acquire involuntarily over a life course. Achieved: social positions that people obtain though personal actions: master status: most influential status in an individuals status set - everett cherrington hughrd (1945) Ie: coworkers, family, teammate: social network: an interrelated system of social relationships of varying purpose, relevance, intimacy, and importance. Ie: facebook, twitter: social facilitation and social loafing. Social facilitation: tendency for people to do better on simple tasks, but worse on complex tasks when they are in the presence of other and their individual performance is being evaluated. Social loafing: tendency to put in minimal effect on simply group tasks when individual performance cannot be evaluated: conformity and group think:
