SOCPSY 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Symbolic Interactionism, Henri Tajfel, Medicalization

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 3B03
• Professor: speakman

Document Summary

Disability: research proposal 10-15 pages, topic of choice - related to class. Social identity: tajfel, the sense of self that one gets as a result of being a member of a social group, these groups give us a sense of belonging, e. g. boyband, frat, cheerleader, etc. Stryker and burke: took slightly different approaches to social identity, because focus is usually on micro, instead of macro, agreed on a more typical definition of identity. Identity references parts of the self composed of the meaning that people attach to the multiple roles they typically place. Influenced by structural symbolic interactionism: more macro, examined how social structure affects the self and how self affects social behaviour, not just micro - social networks/institutions etc have influence too, our relationships/interactions are embedded within these social structures. Burke: more influenced by traditional symbolic interactionism, micro, argued that identities are self-meanings and that self-meanings develop in the context of meanings of roles and counter roles , cognitive.