SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roland Barthes, Totalitarianism, Thick Description
20 Sep 2016
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Sa 150 - lecture 2 - introduction to sociology cont. Born in alberta, spent career teaching in u. s. Famous work: asylums; the presentation of the self in everyday life . Introduced dramaturgical approach to studying social interaction. Wants to look at how social roles are taken on. Founding member of chicago school of sociology. Worked w/ booker t. washington at tuskegee institute in alabama. Famous work: the souls of black folk (1903) Started one of first sociology programs in u. s. at atlanta university. Addresses issues of systematic discrimination against women. Do not need to be women to be feminist/to use feminist theory. Harriet martineau - one of first feminist sociologists. Involves theorizing from her own position as woman. Challenged sociology"s preferred objective as opposed ot subjective stance in research & writing. Looked at how different people treated differently. One way to keep ourselves rigorous - to analyze & look at where we are.
