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So let me ask you a question.
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What is your status? What is your role?
What groups do you belong to interact with?
These are the few of the elements that
influence social interaction, right.
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Lets walk through some of those components.
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What are we talking about when we say status?
This is the term that I am sure
you’ve heard before, right.
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So what are we implying?
Well, in the broad realm of sociology
we have society, right.
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Society. We belong to a society, but within
that society what is your status?
So where do you fit in, in that societal ladder?
There is a lot of different things that will influence
that and there is a different states or of status.
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So the first would be if you are equal.
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And know this is not the picture of me when I was young.
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Alright, so same of those that you are sitting
within the room. Let say in the classroom,
you are in the grade school and all the kids around you.
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Essentially the social ladder you are all the same.
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You are all, 8-9 year old, sitting in your grade 2 class,
going to school.
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Say you have your group of friends, your circle of friends.
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Generally speaking, you are all consider
yourselves peers. You have a roommate.
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Unless your roommate is like Michael Jordan you pretty much
would consider yourself of all fairly equal.
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Now, you would be consider inferior relatively speaking
if you are of a lower status in those around you.
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Let say you are a student and you’re referring
yourself of to your teacher.
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Your teacher in that scenario will have
a higher status than you.
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Or you would have a lower status than your teacher.
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Now, the flip side is if you are engaging with
somebody who has a higher status.
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So let say the CEO of the company.
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Or in this scenario this example that we have here,
we have a drill sergeant and one of the cadets.
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He would be definitely of a higher status.
He is the one making doing the push-ups right.
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So here three examples and three relative states
that you can be in terms of the status.
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Now, let’s look the types of status.
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Now, there is the amazing option
of being ascribed status.
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This is when you are given assigned by society
regardless the persons own effort.
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The example that we have here is Prince William.
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Prince William didn’t sort to choose to be
next in line to the throne.
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He was born into the family. So he was
ascribed that level of status.
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Automatically he is royalty, right.
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The second one would be achieved where you
for example working very hard
to study for your MCAT to right the exam.
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And one day hopefully you will be
a world renowned doctor.
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That will be you achieving
that level of status, okay.
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Now, let’s take a look at what is your role?
And what are some different concepts within
the types of role that you can have.
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Social roles are expectations for people
of a given social status.
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If I say, you’re royalty, there is certain
expectations that come with that.
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You have a certain social role.
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You’re not expected to go to the pub every night
and get drunk and have a good time,
and mingle and try and pick up young men or women.
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Instead you are expected to be a philanthropist,
a social ambassador for good will
and go doing all this things.
That is your society driven role.
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Now, three concepts within social roles
includes first being, role conflict.
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This is when society has ascribed the role
but there is some conflict there.
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For example, when you been assign the role of
say male, which want to be a nurse.
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So society sometimes has a little bit of conflict
with that. There is a little bit of role conflicts.
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Its defined as conflict in society’s expectations
for multiple statuses held by the same individual.
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Now, I know what a male should be.
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And I have some societal expectations of what
a nurse typically looks like.
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So if I was to ask you to draw a nurse
or choose a picture of a nurse
most of us would probably do the sort
of gender roles assume that its
woman and I am thinking here a white outfit
with a little nurses cap that’s a nurse.
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Now, all of a sudden, if I show you a picture
and it’s a male nurse wearing a stethoscope
and he is there in his light blue scrubs,
all of a sudden, “ Oh yeah. I guess,
that’s right. It could be a male too.”
but so sometimes society has that conflicts
and well men aren’t supposed to be a nurses.
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Or female shouldn’t be a hockey player.
And so the list can be on and on, right.
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So now, we are ascribing a particular role.
And when you deviate from that we have role conflict.
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Then there is role strains, or a single status
results in conflicting expectations.
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What I have say here to gay.
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So say your sexual orientation is that
you are gay or homosexual.
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So is there a certain amount of gayness
that you need to express?
I don’t want to be too gay but
I don’t want to not be gay enough.
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Again, so there is expectation in that’s
there in the society is laid out.
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And so you feel is role strain. You, as an individual,
feel like well I need to sort of fit someone expectation.
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But I don’t want to be either under the spectrum.
I don’t want to be not gay enough.
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I don’t want to be too gay. And this
going to apply to anything right.
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So I just highlighted this one because its I think
it’s somebody you can make a lot of sense out of.
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Role exit is when you actually end up trying
to disengage or move from one or to another.
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And the example that have here is when you,
our high school student
and you are transitioning to say college or university.
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Or you’re in the work place or the work force
and you have now enter the world of retirement.
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So this is you exciting a role that you have
perhaps for a long period of time.
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And society has certain roles and
boundaries and expectations.
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And you are now moving on something different.