SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Verstehen, Interpersonal Communication, Erving Goffman
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Focus on interpersonal communication in micro level settings. Social life is possible only because people attach meanings to things. People create social circumstances and do not merely react in them. 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 and i am not what you think i am; i am what i think that you think. What audience reflects shapes a person"s sense of self. Hockey is a powerful symbol of canada. Without shared meaning the game makes no sense. Suggest male domination and female subordination are determined by structures of power and social convention. Critical or structuralist approaches and grand projects. Suggests that knowledge is constructed and the product of power some people have more power to define truth". The exercise of power is more subtle and coercive.
