SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnomethodology, Erving Goffman, Harold Garfinkel
9 Nov 2017
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Symbolic interactionism: micro level in focus/ analysis- everyday interactions between people. The social construction of reality: it is our contention, then, thatsociologymust concern itself with whatever passes for knowledge in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity (by whatever criteria) of such knowledge . Practical embodied knowledge of the social world. Various forms of knowledge that come with different rules (culturally formed) Media images (people, places, situations) media representation (how things are represented to the audiences) Stories about personal experiences with people, places, situations. Analysis of social reality, socially constructed meaning it could be reconstructed as well. Processes by which any body of knowledge comes to be socially established and taken for granted as reality . Makes sense- thomas theorem: how a person defines everyday situations as real, collective element. Society (norms, values, ideas, institutions, practices) is not given, fixed thing"- that is socially produced, reproduced and changed. The categories used to understand everything around us.
