SOCI 2301H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Interactionism, Research
2 Feb 2018
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Useful terms (on the exam: sociological imagination. History, person vs public, action is shaped by others: micro-sociology. Small scale, face to face, everyday interaction: mezzo-sociology. Systems, populations, and social structures: agency. Ability or power to control our own actions: meaning. Determined how we interact or respond: symbolic interactionism. We give meaning and act according to our social contexts, interactions, and processes of interpretation and role taking: ethnography. Research method involving systematic observation of individuals in their routine activities. Ethnographers can be participant or non-participants of the activities to which they study: culture. Ways of thinking, acting and feeling according to a particular group or society. Learned, maintained, and changed through interaction and communication with others in that group: stereotype.
