SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collective Identity, Symbolic Interactionism, Mohamed Bouazizi

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Interpretations of issues and events that inspire and legitimate collective action. Comes about during a period of social disruption. Studies the interactions between people, application of symbols in interaction. Concerned with the interaction order of daily life and experiences, rather than the structures associated with large scale and relatively xed social forces and laws. Wrote the theory of collective behaviour" (1962) Growth of generalized belief (dissmeniation. acceptance of threat and solution) 6. social control ( oppostion"; police, courts, barriers (these nat become spark also)). De nition of collective identity : an individual"s cognitive, moral, and emotional connection with a broader community, category, practice or institution. It is a perception of a shared status or relation, which may be imagined rather than experienced directly, and it is distinct from personal identities, although it may form part of a personal identity. Exists outside of institutionalized structure (grass roots) 2.