SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Erving Goffman, Westron, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Human nature and the social order (1901) Not separate entities but dual expressions of the same thing. The self does not and cannot exists independent of society. Influenced by durkheim, herbert spencer, and william james. How do i know that i exists. I know that i exists because i think. Cogito ergo sum i think therefore i am. Humans are born with this sense of self feeling. Separate from it"/ not me (other people and things) Me, mine, my, i - through behaviour and use of language cooley can observe the empirical self. The self is not first individual and then social - it"s always already social. The individual self and society is produced dialectically via interaction with others. Primary groups intimate , face to face association and cooperation. Fundamental to the ideals, values and social nature of a person. Provide the earliest and most influential experiences of social units (solidarity)