1. Lead-Off Activity On the back of your worksheet:
List the different roles that you have “played” today
Ex: Son/daughter, student, sibling, etc. (get creative)
Name 5-8
Then list the expectations that go along with each one of those roles
How are these roles connected?

2. Worksheet Time
Read Section 1 and finish the worksheet for tomorrow

3. Page 138 – Read Introduction to the Chapter

4. What is Social Structure?
Definition:
The underlying patterns of relationships in a group
How do you fit into your social structure?
Status
A position a person occupies within a social structure
Ex: What is your status as a baby?
Ex: What is the social status of the people in the picture on page 140?

5. 2 Basic Types of Statuses
Ascribed Status
A position that is neither earned nor chosen but assigned
Examples?
Examples: Gender (maybe…), age, in some societies religion and social class, etc.
Achieved Status
A position that is earned or chosen
Examples: Spouse, parent, plumber, lawyer, nurse, doctor, etc.

6. What is a Status Set????
All of the statuses that a person occupies at any particular time
What are your status sets?
Each one of your statuses interacts with other statuses of other people

7. Are All of a Person’s Statuses Equal?
Some are more important than others
Master Status
Def: A position that strongly affects most other aspects of a person’s life
Important because they influence most other aspects of the person’s life
May be achieved or ascribed
Examples?

8. Go Over Worksheets

9. Read Pages
Answer the 3 Questions at the end of “Focus on Research”

10. Social Structure and Roles
Read Section Preview on page 146
Take out your charts from your last assignment – Have they ever caused role strain or conflict?

11. What is a Role?
An expected behavior associated with a particular status
Examples?
We have scripts to follow: Last paragraph on 147
With each role comes rights and obligations
Rights: A behavior that individuals can expect from others
Obligations: A behavior that individuals are expected to perform toward others

12. Role Performance and Interaction
Role Performance is the actual behavior of an individual in a role
Social Interaction is the process of influencing each other as people relate

13. Example of Role Performance
Write down on a piece of paper your most embarrassing moment
Don’t use your name or the actual names of the people involved
Then I will collect them and read a couple of them to the class
Was the embarrassment in these situations caused by having to change roles without preparation?

14. Work Time

15. Bell Ringer – Work on Map Questions
Map Interpreting on page 149
(Do on the back of your worksheet)
Discuss

16. How Does Play-Acting Differ from Social Interactions?
Unlike stage performances, most real-life role performance occurs without planning
Examples?
Differences between role and role performance are far bigger than in a play
There is no predictable relationship between cues and responses
Read page 148 Second to 3rd paragraph

17. Role Conflict and Role Strain
Everybody holds many statuses and many roles
Role Conflict is a condition in which the performance of a role in one status interferes with the performance of a role in another status
Ex: Student and employee, student and athlete
Role Strain is a condition in which the roles of a single status are inconsistent or conflicting
Ex: College basketball coach has to recruit and coach
Other examples?

18. How can you Manage Role Conflict and Role Strain?
May lead to discomfort or confusion to have these…
What does it do to us?
Makes us set priorities
Segregate roles – separate our behavior
Examples of these? – Page 151

19. Work Time
Added Assignment – Read Sociology Today on page 152 and answer the “Doing Sociology” Question

20. At the Bell Take out Assignments Hand in Assignments
Go over Section 2 Questions
Go over “Doing Sociology” Questions
Hand in Assignments

21. Work Time on Assignment

22. Answers to Questions on page 157 - #1
Hunting and Gathering:
Nomadic – Moving from place to place with seasons
Few material goods
Societies are small
Families are the only real institution
Economics based on cooperation and sharing
Little or no private ownership

23. Answers to Questions on page 157 Ctn.
Horticultural society:
Grows plants
More permanent settlements
Family is basic to social life
Frequently fight
Pastoral Society
Economics depends on domestic animals
More migration than in societies based on cultivation of land
Women tend home, and men tend to the animals

24. Answers to Questions on page 157 Ctn.
Agricultural Society:
Increased food production frees people for noneconomic activities and the building of cities
Appearance of occupations not directly tied to farming
Emergence of new political, economic, and religious institutions
Government replacing family group as guiding force
Distinct social classes
Emergence of trade economy

25. In which type of society did a marked class system first appear?
Distinct social stratification first appeared in agricultural societies because the governing class was able to control the source of wealth (land) and accumulate wealth in the form of money

26. Why does conflict increase as society becomes more complex?

27. Read Another Place on page 158 together
Answer the question in your notes

28. Work Time on Next Assignment

29. Bell Ringer: Agricultural Employment Map
Take about 5 minutes to answer the questions on the map on page 161
Write the answers on a paper that can be handed in!

30. Industrial and Postindustrial Societies
Read the Section Preview on Page 159

31. Industrial Societies Definition:
A society that depends on science and technology to produce its basic goods and services
How is this different than an agricultural society?
Move away from simple/traditional technology
Toward the application of scientific knowledge and more complex technological devices
What are some examples of these movements?

32. Industrial Societies Ctn.
Animal and human labor is replaced by machine power (definition of mechanization)
Farmers can then produce enough food for themselves and MANY others
Causing Urbanization:
The shifting of population from farms and villages to large cities

33. Durkheim and Social Solidarity
What is social solidarity?
The degree to which a society is unified
2 Types
Mechanical solidarity – A type of social unity achieved by people doing the same type of work and holding similar values
Organic solidarity – A type of social unity in which members interdependence is based on specialized functions and statuses

34. Major Features of Postindustrial Society
Read page 162
The majority of the labor force are employed in services rather than in agriculture or manufacturing
White-collar employment replaces blue-collar
Technical knowledge is the key organizing feature in a postindustrial society
Technological change is planned and assessed
Reliance on computer modeling in all areas

35. Social Instability in Postindustrial Society
Read Fukuyama’s Quote on pages
Will it continue???

36. End of Notes Worksheet due tomorrow Test Monday next week
Review day – Kahoot and short video review
Test Monday next week
Friday we will spend some time on the final project

37. Review
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