ll form her set.Status Symbol: items used to identify a status. A stethoscope identifies medical statuses.Master Status: a status that cuts across the other statuses than an individual occupies. Being considered attractive in your culture Role: the behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a status. They lay out what is expected of people. On a date, my role is to get everything paid for for me.Thomas Theorem: William I. Thomas’ classic formulation of the definition of the situation: “If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” If you think you are going to heaven after you die, you do everything in your life thinking of that.Social Construction of Reality: the process by which people use their background assumptions and life experiences to define what is real for them.Ideas that you should know and understand from the textbook:The distinction between macrosociology and mirosociology and the analytical orientation of each of the three theoretical perspectives in sociology.You should be able to distinguish between a status and a role and have an understanding of master status (read inserts on Christopher Reeve and Stephen Hawking.)You are to read and understand the social construction of reality as it is exemplified in the “Gynecological Examination” on pages 119-120.People that you should know from this chapter:Ferdinand TonniesEmile DurkheimErving GoffmanChapter SevenTerms to know and understand from Lecture:Rationalization of Society: a widespread acceptance of rationality and a social organization largely built around this idea.Ideal Type: Max Weber: composite of characteristics based on many specific examples, purely rational model.Quality Circles: group of approximately 12 workers, 1-2 managers who meet regularly to discuss ways to improve quality within the organization. It’s the people at the bottom that know. It’s not efficient because nothing ever...
