SOCIOL 3NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Symbolic Interactionism, George Herbert Mead, Instrumental And Value-Rational Action
2 Mar 2020
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Lecture 4: symbolic interactionist perspective on culture + inequality. Learning outcomes: articulate the basics of a symbolic interactionist perspective on society, recognize how symbolic interactionist analysis applies to the study of contemporary culture, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of symbolic interactionist approaches to the study of culture. In order to understand social life, we must understand the many meanings people bring to their actions. Interaction in sociology emphasizes that these meanings and subject. Reality understandings of the world are informed by the interactions people have with others in various social contexts. In thinking about s. i. as a perspective, we are focusing on a particular level of: the level of subjective meaning and small-scale interactions, can help us arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the way society works. We give meanings to things based on social interactions; same thing: 1. We act based on the meaning we"ve given something: 3.
