SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erving Goffman, Frankfurt School, Social Inequality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Soc104 und erstand ing society lecture 3. Individual-first societies are composed of individuals who choose to act in concert to avoid chaos: a lot of weight on the individual, control processes, problem: too much credit to individual choice. Explaining as if we are just a collection of individuals that we decide everything on our own. Free will (cid:449)e do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e the (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e of ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e a(cid:396)e goi(cid:374)g to follo(cid:449) (cid:396)ules i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455); eg. paying taxes. It is society largely that shapes who we become, and who we grow up to be: this perspective is more common. Social structures have an influence on beliefs, and the way in which we operate within the world. Socialization instruction of a very general but powerful kind, social institutions working together. The process whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and behaviours appropriate for members of a particular culture (pg. Socialization helps us to know how to behave properly in a given social context (micro perspective)