SLGY 2131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Symbolic Interactionism
5 Apr 2017
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Tuned to what was going on in europe at the time. Americans see a different sociology, came out of the values of american culture to begin with. Pragmentism, implies the we can do attitude, not about asking questions, not about examining larger truths, but solving smaller issues. In general american sociology their analysis was fore grounded on individual. Influenced north american research methods, reliance on certain kinds of quantitative data, especially in the postwar period. Collection and analysis of individual level data, individual response from opinion polls, attitude surveys, and demographic surveys. Were believed to be good to conceptualize the social . This way was much different from . These values and concerns from the basis of the early social . 20 th century, shifted sociological thinking large scale societal processes. Focus on the ways in which mind, self and society emerge out of human social interaction.
