SOCI 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Culture Shock
8 Apr 2016
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Key problems are that they fail to consider class relaions. Aslo fails to take a micro level of analysis. Never stops to consider if a society is actually funcional. Only has an analysis on society where social problems exists. Fails to take a micro level on analysis. Takes analysis of micro level (based on face to face interacions, small scale paterns, never quaniies data, not interested in large scale paterns, meanings people atach to their experience) Studies the subjecive side of social life (personal) Symbolic interacionism is always dependent on how each individual interprets everything (ex: prof otenheinmer interprets cell phones in class as disrespecful while other profs don"t care) Paricipant observaion is key ( studying paricipant in natural seing, natural habitat, face to face interview or observing how induvial interacts with group) (max weber)protestant ethic: the religious meanings people atach to their work.
