SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sewage Treatment, Online Dating Service, Mass Media

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Eugenics, breeding, putting people away, upper class people should reproduce more than lower class, sterilization of people in prisons and mentally disabled. You can make the kid whatever you want, we stop developing after adulthood. How we learn who we are, what is expected of us, how to behave according to norms and the position you"re in. We cannot be separated from the people around us, or the historical and social circumstances we live in. Separated twins: biology still there, but there are differences in their actions because of the different social contexts. Meaning of our actions change depending on context. Self-image is based on not just what we think of ourselves, but also how we think people see us and how people judge us based on how they see us. Actually, it"s our interpretation of how people think of us. I look good today, goes to party, everyone looking at me, and thinks.