SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Cultural Universal, Symbolic Interactionism
18 Sep 2017
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Culture includes both material objects and ideas (ex. superstitious beliefs), cultural universals (ex. dance, gift giving), as well as surprises when travelling (ex. think of instructors gelato example), and norms (generally accepted ways of doing this). Modern bureaucracies: uniform, standardized, discretion or latitude permitted for clients or workers. You can stay in your car to get the product. Controlled in what they do and how they dress. Customers controlled in what we do (cleaning up for ourselves, carrying our food, self checkout) Has impacted sociology and many other academic disciplines. Also impacted fields such as music, architecture, art, literature. There is no singular theory; rather knowledge and truth is situation-specific, fluid and contested. Discourse is knowledge and how information is constructed and communicated (ex. Truth often reflects power relations as those with power can shape and reshape discourse. An example is conflict theory; it is premised on the ideas of class-conflict.
