Question #2

A social role is a way we expect people to behave in the position they hold in society, an example would
be that you would expect a fireman to put out a fire, or a doctor to be able to treat you when you are ill.
Knowing these roles are important for others to be able to anticipate the appropriate responses.
One can violate his social role by being labeled deviant, Doing anything outside of the norm of that
society.
Ellen Ebaugh came up with the term role exit she used it to describe the reinventing of ones self. The
leaving of one role where the individual identifies with to become something different. Ebaugh set a four
stage model for the process. Role exit and socialization relate in the fourth stage when the person exiting
will leave behind materials or object associated with their former self and only take with them the objects
that will project their new identitys or how they want to be perceived by others in the new social role.
Charles Horton Cooley came up with the terms Primary and Secondary groups. He used the terms to
describe social groups. Primary groups are small cooperative, intimate groups that interact over long
periods of time often with emotional ties to one other like families or sports teams. Secondary groups are
large, non-intimate groups that meet for short term or temporary times in a more formal and impersonal
setting.
Julie Arevalo

Question #4
There are five functional perquisites for a society to survive, the first, is for a society to be able to replace
its members that are lost through death or some other loss. They would be replaced through birth of new
members or migration from a different society. Second, new member must be socialized into the society,
this usually happens through the family unit, schools, or religious worship. Third the society must be able
to produce and distribute some kind of goods or services. Fourth, social order must be maintained. By
providing police and military to protect against internal and external attacks. And last, the society as a
whole must feel they have a purpose, serving something greater than ones self that unites people
together.
Emile Durkheim used mechanical solidarity to describe theory that people feel connect through similar
work, education and, lifestyles this usually happens in smaller more traditional groups.
When a society is dependent on each other because our skills and tasks have become specialized.
Durkheim referred to this as organic solidarity; this is represented in our modern complex society.
Julie Arevalo