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Book No. – 17 (Sociology)
Book Name – Sociology (Yogesh Atal)
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1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS
2. INDIVIDUALS AS STATUS HOLDERS AND ROLE PLAYERS
3. SITUATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTION
4. CONCEPT OF STATUS AND ROLE
4.1. STATUS SET AND ROLE SET
5. ASCRIBED AND ACHIEVED STATUS
5.1. ASCRIBED STATUS
5.2. ACHIEVED STATUS
6. STATUS EXIT OR ROLE EXIT
7. MASTER STATUS
8. STATUS SEQUENCE AND ROLE SEQUENCE
9. STATUS CONFLICT AND ROLE CONFLICT
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Social Interactions and Social Structure: Status and Role
Yogesh Atal
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PRELIMINARY REMARKS
- The social sphere consists of interactions between pluralities of human individuals, leading to the formation of social systems and explaining their continuity and change.
- Sociological analysis does not focus on the individual as a biological being or personality, which are the domains of physical anthropologists and psychologists.
- Biology and psychology influence individual performance as a culture-bearing and culture-creating actor interacting with others.
- Sociology is concerned with role playing and how individuals perform roles tied to various statuses.
- In sociology, the individual is viewed as a bundle of statuses, each associated with specific roles within social groups, including society.
- The interdisciplinary perspective in sociological analysis integrates insights from biology, psychology, and cultural anthropology.
- Some sociologists prefer to refer to society as a socio-cultural system due to this integrated approach.
- Parsons distinguishes between the social system (focused on interaction among individuals in collectivities with determinate membership) and the cultural system (focused on patterns of meaning, values, norms, organized knowledge, beliefs, and expressive forms).
- Institutionalization is key to integrating society and culture, creating permanent structures (subsystems) and establishing values and norms governing their function.
- Groups and sub-groups within society are collectivities made up of individuals as members, discussed earlier in relation to the social system.
- This chapter will first focus on individuals as status holders, the fundamental elements of any social system, and then explore other aspects of institutionalization.