SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homo Sapiens
26 Nov 2014
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The social world isn"t the only thing socially constructed, our whole world is. Humankind has a natural existence (our biological constitution) that creates a world openness. That particular nature allows us to create our socio - culturural nature through praxis. Humans together, produce a human environment - homo sapiens is always homo socius. Human capacities allow for the creation of order, direction, and relative stabilit - reduces tensions. The social order is an ongoing human production - the process of objectification/objectivation. It is an anthropological/ ontological necessity of human life. Through the creation of an external objective reality. Face to face interaction becomes typificatory schemes rooted in shared stocks of knowledge. Out of the myriad of ways interacting, a ways emerges. Habitualization schemes of action create a stable background for interaction. Habitualized schemes of action shape stocks of knowlrdge and interaction in specific areas of social interaction ( how you act in the home, with strangers etc)
