SOCI 2301H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Microsoft Powerpoint, Railways Act 1921, Stereotype
2 Feb 2018
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Chapter 3: people as symbol makers and users. Creating and transforming reality: animals are instinctual and largely passive, hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s do (cid:374)ot see (cid:396)eality (cid:862)(cid:374)akedly(cid:863, we construct our realities through symbols and patterns. Symbols, signs, and meanings (*test: a sign, a meaning we directly associate with something, smoke means fire, dark clouds means rain, power point means presentation. Language, naming, and the meaning of reality: we need shared language to construction names and meaning. Personality traits: assumed characteristics based on our stereotype introvert lazy, social identity (*test) is a mental category to which we place people in relation to others. 3: can we a single trait or many traits. Gender: gender still shapes various apects of social life, consider job roles, household and marriage roles, and physical characteristics, still a way to go before gender stereotypes are broken. Equality has arrived but ethnic groups decide to stay in low wage jobs: seeing ethnic groups as demanding and militant.
