Social Structure And Interaction 2 Flashcards
Gesellschaft (associations)
Large urban society where social bonds based on impersonal and specialized relationship. Little long term commitment
Most are strangers
Ex: banker doctor
Gemeinschaft (community)
Traditional where relationships are based on personal bonds of friendship and kinship
Based on ascribed status
Strong sense of belonging
Mechanical and organic solidarity
Durkheim concerned with what holds societies together
Preindustrial-held together by strong traditions and beliefs.
Industrialized-members shared dependence on eachother
Mechanical
Automatic sense of belonging members
United social bonds. Face to face
Organic solidarity
Social cohesion in industrial. Perform specialized tasks. Mutual dependence. Rely on eachother like organs of the body. Less personal status oriented or specific goals
Money economy
Modern life is valued and codified in monetary terms. Biased attitude.
Ethnomethodology
Study of the commended se knowledge that people use up understand the situations in which they find themselves