SOC260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Biopsychosocial Model, A Generation, Erving Goffman
31 Oct 2018
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Some theoretical assumptions: the social structure of western societies is made up of connected sets of social relations that privilege some groups and disadvantage others. Life stage at the point of social change. Lives in time and place: effect of contextual change caused by a particular historical event on individual life trajectories, how change affects individual life trajectories, substantive birth cohort. Birth & death, it(cid:859)s also (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374): a generation = a unique type of social location based on being born in a specific year + and place. Belonging to a certain generation involves: common location in social and historical processes. Social structure: several theoretical constructs that apply to processes of class, race, ethnicity, age, and gender formation, oppression. Actors and cage(s) (class, age, gender, and ethnicity: the ability to exert control over the social relations that one is involved in.
