Learn more about how to completely close your Course Hero account and be removed from the site. It refers to a society's overall organization, based on institutions, rules, and norms.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Dollars. While most of us learned about social movements in history classes, we tend to take for granted the fundamental changes they caused —and we may be completely unfamiliar with the trend toward global social movements.
analysis of social life that focuses on broad features of society, such as social class and the relationships of groups to one anotheranalysis of social life that focuses on social interactionwhat people do when they are in one another's presencethe framework of society that surrounds us; consists of the ways that people and groups are related to one anotherlarge numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and education and who work at jobs that are roughly comparable in prestigethe position that someone occupies in a social groupall the statuses or positions that an individual occupiesa position an individual either inherits at birth or receives involuntarily later in lifepositions that are earned, accomplished, or involve at least some effort or activity on the individual's partindicators of a status, especially items in that display prestigea status that cuts across the other statuses that an individual occupiesranking high on some dimensions of social status and low on othersthe behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a statuspeople who interact with one another and who believe that what they have in common is significantthe organized, usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needsthe degree to which members of a group or a society are united by shared values and other social bondsDurkheim's term for the unity that people feel as a result of performing the same or similar tasksthe splitting of a group's or a society's tasks into specialtiesDurkheim's term for the interdependence that results from the division of labora type of society in which life is intimate; a community in which everyone knows everyone else and people share a sense of togethernessa type of society that is dominated by impersonal relationships, individual accomplishments, and self-interestassumptions of what people are like, whether true or falsethe ways in which people use their bodies to give messages to othersan approach, pioneered by Erving Goffman, in which social life is analyzed in terms of drama or the stagepeople's efforts to control the impressions that others receive of themplaces where people rest from their performances, discuss their presentations, and plan future performancesthe ways in which someone performs a role; showing a particular "style" or "personality"conflicts that someone feels between roles because the expectations are at odds with one anotherthe term used by Goffman to refer to how people use social setting, appearance, and manner to communicate information about the selfthe collaboration of two or more people to manage impressions jointlytechniques used to salvage a performance that is going sourthe study of how people use background assumptions to make sense out of lifea deeply embedded, common understanding of how the world operates and of how people ought to actWilliam I. and Dorothy S. Thomas' classic formulation of the definition of the situation: "If people define situations are real, they are real in their consequences"the use of background assumptions and life experiences to define what is real
Arab Academy can help you Social structure is the organized pattern of relationships and social institutions that make up a society.