SOCI 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Movement, Industrial Revolution, Qwerty
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Like a building that has had many occupants over the years, but continues to exist even when renovated. Key components of social structure: two key components that make up the core of social structure. Roles: roles are positions that comes with specific social expectations for how to behave and be treated. Importance of these rolls can be seen in the ways that occupying a particular role changes our behavior over the course of our lives: life course: the transitions individuals make as they age through their lives. Childhood, adolescence, the transition to adulthood and first job, parenting, retiring, death. Study of life course focuses on key transitions in individual lives and the larger social patterns they represent. Behavior changes as a result of life course and roles changing: social hierarchies: any relationship between individuals or groups that is unequal and provides one person or group with more status and power than another.
