SOAN 2120 Lecture 2: SOAN_2120 - Week 2 LEC 2.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: Scott Schau

Document Summary

Focuses on the nature of interactions between individuals. How we form our identity through daily interactions and by looking into the reactions of others (looking-glass self) Interest in the role of communications in human affairs. Focus on how people create reality and social structure through their actions and interactions. Interested in social norms; people"s expectations and how they make sense of their world/of the life they experience. Predominant beliefs, values, and social norms have been constructed by people representing only a portion of society: men. Looks into how much in society depends on gender. Scientific knowledge and methodology is gendered and biased by men. I. e. astronomers would give their data to women, who would then compute and calculate the data and form the theories that were credited solely to men; marie curie; etc. Influence the explanations we create to understand observed social phenomena. Understanding the underlying paradigm of a study can be crucial to assess its merits/failures.