SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Radical Feminism, Identity Formation, Old Age
27 Feb 2018
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Breaking the binaries & understanding social construction. Interactionists try to help us understand the social world by interpreting signs and symbols in the ways we communicate. Set of socially defined expectations of behavior associated with a given status or social position. Role playing vs. role taking: mead suggests there are critical differences, role taking have 2 distinct elemtns, people anticipating responses, people evaluating themselves and their behaviors based on the predicted potential responses of others. Lifelong process through which people acquire norms and values and develop a sense of self. Passage of norms, values, and social practices from one generation to another through socialization. Socialization & social reproduction on those roles: in this stage, children lack a complete sense of self. Play stage involves imitation and interpreting roles based on observations: case as a (cid:494)social object(cid:495) and interpret the patterns of behavior based, team sports, figuring out everyone(cid:495)s role in relation to your own and.
