social structure
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Sociology with Family PlanningTRANSCRIPT
SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Social inequality is characterized by the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society.
It contains structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods, wealth, opportunities, rewards, and punishments
SOCIAL STRUCTURE refers to social patterns that guide
our behavior in everyday life. -J.J. Macionis
STATUS• a social
position that is part of our social identity and that defines our relationships to others
ROLE
• the action expected of a person who holds a particular status
Building Blocks
STATUS
Ascribed
Status
a social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life
Achieved
Status
a social position a person takes on voluntarily that
reflects personal ability and effort
-a social position that is part of our social identity and that defines our
relationships to others
STATUS
status set - all the statuses a person
holds at a given time
master status- status that has special importance for
social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life
ROLE
role set - a number of roles attached to a
single status
-the action expected of a person who holds a
particular status
ROLE
Role Confli
ct
conflict among the roles connected to two or more statuses
Role Strain
tension among the roles
connected to a single status
PERSPECTIVES
conceived of social structure as logic behind reality
while social relations constitute the raw materials out of which the models making up the social structure are built, the structure itself cannot be reduced to an ensemble of social relations rather such relations themselves result from such re-existing structures.
Claude Levi Strauss
PERSPECTIVES
views social structure as reality itself
regards the role system of any society with its given coherence as the matrix of the social structure
two specific advantages of structural analysis:1. lending a higher degree of
comparability to social data2. rendering such data more
readily
Siegfried Frederick Nadel
PERSPECTIVES
his principal concern is the ethnographic facts and the taxonomic classification of societies on the basis of manifest readily discernible characteristics
The taxonomy established by Murdock is based on statistical correlation rather than the functional analysis.
George Peter Murdock