1. Social Structure

2. Building Blocks of Social Structure

3. What Guides our Interaction • Society as a Structure • Status • Role

4. Status • A socially defined position in a group or society How do I fit in? Who am I: a definition • Mr. Phillips Status: Teacher, Father, Student, City Councilman

5. Ascribed and achievedstatus • Ascribed Status • Just who you are • You don’t have to do anything to have ascribed status • Based on inherited traits Teenager, Girl, African American Can you name any other?

6. Achieved Status • Acquired through your own efforts, skills • An earned title • You have CONTROL over this status • Teacher, Actor, Basketball Player, Businessman • Can you name more?

7. Master Status • What you are known best for by others • Can be Achieved or Ascribed (King) • -In the US, MOST are achieved • Father, Doctor, • Fireman, Banker • Sith Lord • More?

8. ROLES • How you perform in your status • Bring your status to life

9. roles • Reciprocal Roles • Define the interaction between related statuses -Doctor – Patient -Father - Mother -Customer - Salesman

10. Roles Expectations and Performances • Role Expectations – • Expected behaviors of a person performing a role -What society expects of the that role • Role Performance – • Actual behavior of a person performing a role • -Does not always match society and others expectations

11. Role Expectation

12. Role Performance

13. Role Conflict and Role Strain • Role Set: All the different roles that are attached to a person Role Conflict: Fulfilling one role makes it difficult to perform another role Role Strain: Difficulty meeting role expectations of a single status.

14. Social Institutions • Status and roles determine the structure of groups in society. • A group that forms when statuses are ORGANIZED to meet the basic needs of society. • -provide physical and emotional support • -sharing knowledge • -producing and selling goods • -maintaining social control

15. Types of Social Interaction

16. Social Interaction How you interact with others while playing a role The Key: INTERACTION

17. Social Interaction Exchange -Interaction between people in where an effort in to receive a reward or return • -Most Basic type of interaction Reciprocity -If you do something for others they do something for you -Please & Thank You

18. Social Interaction • Exchange THEORY • People are motivated by SELF INTEREST in interactions with others • *People do things primarily in an attempt to gain some form of REWARD

19. Competition • Two or more people or GROUPS oppose each other to reach a goal that only one can attain. • Achieving a the goal • Very common in western society • A good thing if people follow accepted rules of society

20. Conflict • Deliberate act • -Control another person or group by force • -Harm another person • -Very few rules of conduct • Sources of conflict War Disagreements within groups Legal disputes Clashes over ideology

21. Cooperation • Two or more people or groups work together to achieve a goal • Goal will benefit more than one person • A very social process

22. Accommodation • The state of balance between cooperation and competition • -give a little - take a little Compromise: When both parties give up something Truce: Stops conflict until compromise is met Mediation: Calling in third party to reach agreement

23. Types of Societies Group: A set of people who interact on the basis of shared expectations and have some degree of common identity