SOC 1101 Chapter 5: Chapter 5

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Key components of social structure: two key related but distinct components: roles and social hierarchies and norms and institutions. Power and privilege in social hierarchies: power: the ability to influence the behaviors of others, privilege: the ability or right to have special access to opportunities or claims on. Rewards: dominant group seeks to monopolize opportunities and control rewards or at least prevent its existing privileges from eroding, subordinate groups are subjected to inferior status and limited opportunities. Examples of classic negative stereotypes: some groups are lazy or unintelligent, are prone to criminal activity and are better suited for ambition. Immigration: what individuals and families move to take up residence in a new country. Institutions emerge whenever groups of people begin to formalize something that individuals were already doing informally. such as an important normal rule or common practice already in society.