SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Solomon Asch, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Mark Granovetter
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Chapter 4: from social interaction to social organization. Feminist theory, emotion, and the building blocks of social. It is structured around norms, roles, and statuses. They are also less likely to ask for directions: feminists see that gender often structures interaction patterns, social statuses are just one of the three things that structure social interactions, a role is a set of expected behaviours. Whereas people occupy a status, they perform a role: a norm is a generally accepted way of doing things, social interaction is shaped by status, roles, and norms. You have learned that lying still and playing dead increases the chance that the grizzly bear will lose interest in you. But in the 1800s, shooting yourself was normal as well (cid:523)today you"d be considered deranged(cid:524). They are governed by sociological principles: norms, roles, and statuses require a sort of social cement to prevent them from falling apart and to turn them into a durable social structure.
