SOCIOL 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Peer Pressure, Achieved Status, Ascribed Status

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Paul Knudson

Document Summary

Socialization - the process by which we learn how to become a functioning member of society. The process through which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a society and learn to function as its members . Interactions between a person and the world shape who they are. Limits of socialization: nature vs. nurture debate, humans have agency people make their own choices. Status - a recognizable social position that an individual occupies. Role - the duties and behaviors expected of someone who holds a particular status. Role strain - when roles in a single status conflict. Role conflict - tension caused by competing demands between two or more roles pertaining to different statuses. Status set - all the statuses you have at a given time. Ascribed status - a status into which you are born involuntary. Achieved status - a status into which one enters voluntary.