Elizabeth Holmes

Daisy Corral
Justin Perez
Alexis Arana
Professor Alvarado
Sociology 001

1. Ascribed Status is developed in a person and cannot have any control of it. For
example, your race, gender, eye color, ethnicity etc. Achieved Status is how a person
earns their own life decisions and who they want to become. For example, a lawyer,
nurse, athlete, singer etc. A reference group is how we compare and
evaluate ourselves from behaviors . We use this to help us understand our attitudes
and behaviors to identify social norms. Reference groups is experienced in society by
comparing ourselves from other people in the way they act and seeing what is normal
and what is not normal. (Daisy Corral)

2. A social role is the behavior patterns and obligations of a person's social status.
When a person does not fulfill the obligation of their role, they are violating it. A doctor's
social role is to diagnose patients and treat illnesses. If at patient's appointment, instead
of assessing their symptoms the doctor does the patient's makeup, the doctor has
violated his role. Role exit is when a person switches from the role of who they
genuinely are to a different a role and identity that is new. When role exiting, we must
begin a new socialization process for the role we are assimilating because in the
socialization process we are grasping the new society around us and its norms. Role
exiting is often the beginning of all socialization processes.
Roles often depend upon the group in which we belong, whether primary or secondary.
An example of a primary group would be a group of close friends. This is because
primary groups are smaller groups in which members care about one another and feel
that they have a belonging within it. These group can last through most of a person's
lifetime. Secondary groups are formed with the intent of accomplishing a goal and
consist of many people, for example, an army squadron. (Alexis Arana)

3. An in-group is when someone is involved in a social group that identifies themselves

being a member and is loyal. Now, the out-group is when a person doesn't involve or
interact with the members and aren’t loyal.The connection between In-Group and
Primary Group is that it’s very hard to consider what your in-group is without considering
what your primary group is. Since Primary group is a group of members who has close,
personal, enduring relationships with one another, most likely you will also identify your
primary group as your in-group because of those bonds. Secondary groups are often
goal related with members of people who do not share close relationships with one
another. Because of this, out-groups are connected with secondary groups because
members do not have intimate relationships with one another and within a secondary
group there may come the same competitive nature as one would feel with their out-
group. For instance, being in the working environment a person shares the same
secondary group with coworkers belonging to different out-groups.
(Daisy Corral, Justin Perez, Alexis Arana)

4. The Five functional prerequisites in order for society to survive are: replacing
members, socialization, Production/distribution, preserving order, and purpose.
The first requisite, replacing members, is one of the absolute requirements for the
survival of society. Without growth and death of the population, society will deteriorate
and cease to exist. Socialization is required because migration can chip away at how
the society is currently modeled and adaptation is needed. Production/distribution is
the third requirement and the reason this is on the list because a source of good/income
is required to influence migration to their society, keep civilians within the society, and
ultimately grow in influence around surrounding societies and obtain a self-sustaining
society. The forth, preserving order, is a form of law, government, rules and regulation,
without them, society will break in to a law-less chaotic society. The last part is
purpose, which is needed to a certain extent, sacrifice self-interest. For example, if
everyone became blacksmiths, but there are no farmers, everyone would starve, and if
the latter would occur, they would have no tools to farm. There has to be a sense of
equality.
Organic solidarity is the social integration on the need for each other’s services, such as
my example of farmers and blacksmiths. Mechanical Solidarity is the social integration
with the same beliefs and way of life, with the same purpose. An example of this would
be small villages, especially in central america and estate farms around the world.
Estate Farms are a mini society where everyone works for the sake of the estate.
(Justin Perez)