SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Oberlin College, Teaching Philosophy, Erving Goffman
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Introductory issues and historical overview: the emergence and development of symbolic interactionist theory, the chicago school in the 1920s and 1930s, robert park, dominant member of the department of sociology in the 1920s and. As the conversation progresses you consider in your mind telling a politically incorrect joke. Mead"s theoretical ideas: erving goffman, often seen as the last major thinker of the chicago school, in 1959, goffman published his book presentation of self in everyday. Fox 3 lecture 33: primary groups, small intimate groups that link individuals to the larger society, example, primary groups for children, the family, the peer group. It"s through these primary groups that cooley argued, the lookingglass self. Develops: sympathetic introspection, cooley thought that sociologists should try to put themselves in the place of the individuals that they"re studying. A biographical sketch of george hebert mead: early years, mead was born in 1863 into a religious family, shy and quiet child, undergraduate studies: