SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hyperreality, Gender Inequality, Symbolic Interactionism
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Focuses on the interpersonal communication in micro level settings. Social life is possible only because people attach meaning to things. People create social circumstances and do not merely react to them. Society as a product of everyday interactions of people. Shared reality that people construct as they interact. Reality: how we define surroundings, obligations, identities. Weber: verstehen: empathy with motives and meanings to understand people"s actions. Mead: sense of self formed in the course of interactions with others, i, me, significant and generalized other, other, ascribed meaning, interactive behaviour. Goffman: dramaturgical approach: from and back stages, shared cognitive frames. Cooley: i am not what i think i am and i am not what you think i am; i am what i think that you think i am , what audience reflects shapes a person"s sense of self. Hockey as a powerful symbol of canada: meaning shared by millions.
