SOCIOL 2D06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Simile, Social Forces, George Herbert Mead
10 Oct 2016
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Symbolic interactionist perspective: the study of how people negotiate the meanings of social life during their interactions with others , this perspective helps us understand the social processes that in uence our understandings of the world. We construct meaning about things that are important in our own lives and in our society. Society and agency: sociology: systematic study of society, society: network of interactions between people. Based on the de nition society and people cannot be separated from one another. Agency can vary across people in different social categories, and is linked to their status and power (2) children can learn the use of agency from their parents which can vary against social contexts or groups. Sunday, september 11, 2016: the development of symbolic interactionist thought stems from eighteenth-century moral philosophers such as adam smith and david hume, these traditions emphasize applied, practical applications of social theory and research.
