SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Playing Indian, Alternative Lifestyle, Erving Goffman

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 107
• Professor: Melanie Knight

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Soc 107 - lecture 4 - feb 13, 2017. Always remaining peripheral or marginal to groups with which interactions are being sought. Not one on one, stranger in relation to community/group. The stranger"s distinctive position is to be near and distant to a group at the same time. Applied the idea to immigrant racial and ethnic groups in the city. Don"t look or dress like everyone else, different laws (status), language, social norms/values (ethics), alienation, strangeness. One who is not knowledgeable about the cultural pattern of the group to which admission is sought. Unacquainted individuals come from different face to face contexts and areas of conversation, with different biographies and life experiences. Come from different symbolic worlds and have different symbolic views. *someone could be both a biographical and a cultural stanger, therefore the idea is messy* A meeting which involves surprise (what people say, looks people give you) A moment that shifts the boundaries of the familiar.