Social Organization/ Social

Structure

Group interaction status role sanctions folkways mores society

Social Organization/ Social Structure

Institutionalization Origins of Institutionalization

Habitualization Statuses and roles are habitualizedHistory is a factorInstitutions 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

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)

Social Organization/ Social Structure

Achieved status

Ascribed status

social stratum

social classsocial mobility

horizontalvertical

social mobilityopenclosed (caste)

Egalitarian

Stratified

Social Class in America

“Class Matters: A Six-Figure Rootless Life”

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/class/index.html

“Results of the Poll”

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

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.