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SOCI 210: Sociological Perspectives
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- Oct. 6
- 1. Intersectionality
- 2. Interactional sociology
- 3. Status and boundaries
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SOCI 210: Sociological Perspectives Oct. 6 1. Intersectionality 2. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
SOCI 210: Sociological Perspectives Oct. 6 1. Intersectionality 2. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
SOCI 210: Sociological Perspectives Oct. 6 1. Intersectionality 2. Interactional sociology 3. Status and boundaries 1 Social Status and Roles 2 Status and roles Social status and social roles Interaction between status and roles is
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Social status and social roles
⦙ Interaction between status and roles is central to interactional sociology
Status
⦙ Perceived categories that others use to define us ⦙ Ascribed status
Gender, race, age, …
⦙ Achieved status
Profession, popularity, wealth, …
Roles
⦙ Expectations of behavior based
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⦙ Roles learned through socialization
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Role Status
Interplay of status and roles
⦙ Status sets and role expectations are co- constitutive ⦙ Constant, repeated interaction solidifies status and defines role expectations ⦙ Without repeated interaction, roles are difficult to define
Expectations rely on previous experience or accounts
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Status hierarchy
⦙ Status is in an implicit hierarchy ⦙ Wealth, profession, race, gender
“Status characteristics” that inform high- versus low-status
⦙ Realized in interaction
People in high-status jobs get used to deferential treatment People accustomed to disregarding those in poverty
Status mismatch
⦙ Certain statuses are assumed to ‘go together’
College degree and employment Homemaker and women
⦙ Notable when those assumptions are subverted
Well-payed garbage collector Men doing childcare
Still from Trading Places (1983) Still from Trading Places (1983)
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Social status
⦙ Social Status: Honor or prestige attributed to one’s position in society ⦙ Status groups share styles, tastes, culture
Max Weber; Pierre Bourdieu
Permeable status categories
⦙ Status is attributed using cultural categories ⦙ Membership in status categories is constructed ⦙ Social status requires agreement
Membership requires the agreement of
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Still from Mean Girls (2004)
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Boundary processes
- Social process of
inclusion and exclusion
- Criteria establish
difference, draw boundaries, distinguish
- Happens in all kinds of
groups
How to dress How to act Right jokes to make Right way to make plans Cultural touchstones …
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Status boundaries defined by hierarchy
- People excluded from status categories ‘above’
- Status boundaries helps people distinguish
themselves from those they perceive as lower- status
Social class
- One way to think about class:
bundles of status categories associated as one
- Class is established by ability to navigate
clusters of social boundaries
- To be high-class you must ‘pass’ as high-class