1. Social Organization/ Social Structure

2. Social Organization/ Social Structure
Group
interaction
status
role
sanctions
folkways
mores
society
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 The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City: Anchor Books.

3. 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)

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

5. Social Class in America
“Class Matters: A Six-Figure Rootless Life”
“Results of the Poll”

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

7. Recognition of Social Class in America
The New York Times series on Social Class in America is indicative of class awareness once again in the United States.

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.
As we clearly saw (and see) in New Orleans, the ravages of stratification and racism are quite pronounced in our society and seem to be growing once again.