SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Erving Goffman, The Sociological Imagination, Symbolic Interactionism

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Sociology of everyday life intro. The social: 1) society, 2) the social language, as referring to a system of interaction (peter berger 1963: 9). Sum total of people doing stuff together. The web of meanings, expectations and conduct resulting from such mutual orientation is the stuff of sociological analysis (berger : 10). Fashion: no white after labour day, skin & age, gender clothes, no socks and sandals. Less crime: good for the children, car central, house, family (heterosexual families, race. The sociologist thinks of society" as denoting a large complex of human relationships, or to put it in more technical. As one in which people orient their actions towards one another. The web of meanings, expectations and conduct: house, family (heterosexual families, race. The sociological imagination: c. wright mills private troubles & public issues. Contextualize failures and successes within broader social structures.

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