SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Frank Tannenbaum, Labeling Theory
25 Feb 2020
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Ignored active, thinking pragmatic actor who makes sense of creates their social worlds in interaction: society typified as over-determining force, an over-socialized view of human activity, no room for individual"s agency or resistance. Impacts to individuals" conceptions of self and self-identities: especially role of stigma and how individuals manage it. 1st need to locate theory within symbolic interactionism. Because behaviour is unpredictable, emergent, unique to every social encounter. Relationship between individual and society: bother interconnected rather than separate and discrete entities, both continually in flux, always changing, both part of ongoing indeterminate processes of action. Individuals part of constitutive of society do not stand" outside of it. Is informed by gender, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, ability. Approach focuses on: social definitions of deviance rather than causes of deviance, rule-making and societal reactions to rule violations, and impact reactions of others have on rule violators.
