Strauss - Four aspects of Social Worlds
- Each social world is a universe of mutual response
- Each is an arena in which there is a kind of organization
- Each is a cultural arena
- Boundaries are not set by territory or membership but by limits of effective communication
Strauss - Major processual features of social worlds
Social worlds intersect
- i.e. technology is borrowed, skilled taught and learned, alliances may form
Social worlds segment
-Intersection and segmentation highlight the fluidity and dynamic nature of the world(s) we live in
Strauss - Socialization
Socialization occurs and is related to how people enter and leave worlds and subworlds
How social worlds help sociological analysis
- Social worlds can be studied at any scale
- Process is central to study of social worlds
- Studies of social worlds trains attention to historical analysis of that world
- Antideterminism is not threatened by a social world focus
- Social world demand new methods and new methodologies
- Social worlds urges building of general theory about worlds rather than researching particular worlds
Negotiated Order
Strauss
the principal way things are accomplished in organization is through people negotiating with one another - helps to understand individual action and constraint
How are subworlds given worth and value?
Distancing the segment from others
Theorizing to establish authenticity
Setting standards and embodying them
Setting and challenging boundaries
Strauss - social arenas
Defines arena as interactions by social worlds around issues
- Arenas, no matter the scope, involve questions of policy and direction of action
- Source and issue of debate can be both external and internal to participating social world/subworld
- Arenas exist at every level of organizational action and lie at the very heart of permanence and change of social worlds
- Arenas are central to creation and maintenance of social order
Strauss - social arenas and political process
- Defining the issue
- Evolving the issue
- Match social worlds and organizations with the issue
- Getting involved with alliances
- Intersecting of arenas
Strauss - Domains
Domains constitute larger social space within which arenas have arisen and continue to exist
