Transcript status-and
Roles, Relationships and Groups 1. Introduction to status and roles Status Labels • Show your social position • Help us to identify expected behaviors • Illustrate our role in society 2 types of status 1. Ascribed: a status you receive without choice; often given at birth (poor, white, teenager) 2. Achieved: you make a choice/ earn the status (teacher, doctor, drug addict, drop out) Ascribed or Achieved? Mother Doctor Studies Show… • Statuses are important – In an experiment involving dropped money, 77% of people will return the money to a well-dressed person, but only 38% will return it to a poorly dressed person – When given a command by someone in a police uniform 83% will do it without question, but only 46% will do it with the person asking is dressed as a delivery guy or lay-person Roles • Behavior(s) associated with a status • Sociologists are interested in how roles relate and how people respond to conflict of roles Reciprocal Roles • Related roles. One could not exist w/o the other –Dr./patient –Teacher/Student –Parent/Child Role Strain/Role Conflict • Occurs when a choice must be made in fulfilling roles –EX: Mom has a daughter’s dance recital and son’s baseball game the same night –EX: My daughter is sick, but I am supposed to teach class 2 ways to solve role strain/conflict 1. Prioritizing: choose one role over the other (if my kid is sick, I don’t teach) 2. Compartmentalizing: compromise to satisfy both roles (bring sick kid to work and teach w/ her in the room) Judging Relationships •To prioritize or compartmentalize, we look at how close a relationship is on a relationship continuum ____________________________________________ Personal Impersonal