SA 150 Lecture 2: Sept 19 - Lecture 2

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Spent his career teaching in the us. Famous work: (cid:862)asylums(cid:863), (cid:862)the presentation of the self in everyday life(cid:863) Idea of the backstage and frontstage performance the idea is what we do when performing in our social worlds is(cid:374)"t put o(cid:374), its lear(cid:374)ed through so(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) Introduced the dramaturgical approach to studying social interaction. Fou(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er of the (cid:862)chi(cid:272)ago (cid:272)hool(cid:863) of so(cid:272)iolog(cid:455) Thought of the city as a laboratory told his students to go into the city to study it. Fa(cid:373)ous (cid:449)ork: (cid:862)the cit(cid:455)(cid:863), focused on chicago. Worked with booker t. washington at the tuskegee institute in alabama. Black american sociologist of race, economics and culture. Also wrote newspaper articles, novels, personal essays, short stories, and poems. Fa(cid:373)ous (cid:449)ork: (cid:862)the ouls of bla(cid:272)k folk(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1004)3(cid:895) Started one of the first sociology programs in the usa at atlanta university. Feminist theory addresses issues of systematic discrimination against women.