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2 Social Organization/ Social Structure

3 Group interaction status role sanctions folkways mores society Social Organization/ Social Structure Institutionalization Origins of Institutionalization Habitualization Statuses and roles are habitualized History is a factor Institutions are perceived as objective realities Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. 1966 The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City: Anchor Books

4 Social Organization/ Social Structure Grouping by gender Grouping by age Age grades - based on chronological age Age sets - based on entry into group Grouping by common interest (Common Interest Associations)

5 Social Organization/ Social Structure Achieved status Ascribed status social stratum social class social mobility horizontal vertical social mobility open closed (caste) Egalitarian Stratified

6 Social Class in America “Class Matters: A Six-Figure Rootless Life” http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/class/index.html “Results of the Poll”

7 Social Organization/ Social Structure Role conflict Status disintegration Cognitive dissonance, Leon Festinger Emil Durkheim, Study of Suicide Factors of increasing social complexity: altruistic, anomic Jack Gibbs, Status Integration and Suicide Emil Durkheim – Division of Labor in Society mechanical solidarity/organic solidarity Ferdinand Tönnies – Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft

8 The Two Nations of Black America As featured in a current Dallas Morning News series, there is a growing economic divide in black America. Today, America's black middle class is the largest in its history, yet roughly one- third of black America continues to live in poverty. This film measures the economic and social success of the civil rights movement and the gap between middle class and poor African- Americans through interviews with noted Afro-Americans and historical film footage.


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