SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hyperreality, Totalitarianism, Verstehen
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Focus on interpersonal communication in micro level settings. Social life is possible only bc people attach meanings to things. People create social circumstances and do not merely react to them. Structure affects your life but it is not the only thing. Ex. people born rich often stay rich, people born into poverty can also get rich. Economy and culture shapes you and your behaviour, but you also shape culture. Ex. whaling example, whaling to fund kids to go to university so they don"t have to. Verstehen - empathy with motives and meanings to understand people"s actions. Sense of self formed in the course of interaction with others. Dramaturgical approach - front and back stages, shared cognitive frames. I am not what i think 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.
