Merida Angelina~
Everyday before dinner my kids and myself wash our hands before proceeding to eat, once sitting at the table we enjoy our dinner & talk a little, when dinner is done each of us proceed to scrap any left over food on out plates then put the dish in the sink. This is a daily occuacnce in my home. From a sociological perspective this is known as one of the many social structure settings within a society; within a societies social structure lies social institutions such as schools, government, prisons, and schools to name a few, each of these (socail institutions) model routines and patterns of behavior that take place in (social structure).
Chapter 4 address' the elemnts of social structure. In life we all have roles such as ascribed /achieved stautuses, within these roles there are a set of norms that occur, for instance going back to my family and I having dinner; we do this everyday however it would be out of the norm if everytime we had dinner we'd throw the dishes out of the window as oppose to the garbage. Within my home apart from our ascribed status we each have a part that we model within our homes structure, however it is not written in stone, these roles and statuses alter from culture to culture. Sociologist use the Ethnomethodology approcah and breaching experiments on a micro, meso and macro level to study the dynamic of socail intergration within social structures.
In Peter Berger's article The Meaning of Social Control, Berger addressed how social stucture has an underlying factor called social control. Berger states the oldest means of social control is physical violence, and how many social instituions use this form of reneforcement to create a balance of keeping social structure in an oderly form or there are consequences for adhereing to the desired behavior that is expected within these societies, for example if a criminal resorts to trying to resist arrest even in the slighest form, they will be delt with in a physical manner to maintain and uphold their power and authority within a situation as such. Berger further explains that a part from physical means of social other means do exsist on other levels according to their roles, and statues social control is prevelant within many other social institutions. For examle Berger identifies ridicule and gossip as a form of social control in primary groups, within these groups one is supposed to display a certain kind of behavior following the norns within particular social settings/groups. If one is not to obide by the rules or norms within this society disciplinary actions are taken which can range from opprobrium, ostracsim, and shunning.
In conclusion I can identify with Berger's article "The Meaning of Social Control" because I see social control on a daily basis; Because I myself follow norms by avoiding social control by not violating the principles that have been set within the socierty we live in today.
Merida Angelina~
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