SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Microsociology
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Weber was critical about marx"s thinking about economy (too simplistic, too focused on economy, too narrow to look at industrial capitalism). There are more than two types of workers such as, middle managers, people who contribute to the economy without being paid. People have some power and privilege regardless of their job. He looked at the macrosociology of marx and durkheim and said what about microsociology; that happens with face to face interaction. Studying face to face interaction, diact (studying two groups of people), the meaning that people attach to how they interact with each other. Symbolic: is looking at how we interact with each other on the basis of the meaning that we attach to those things. You are interacting with that person superficially based on the clothing. For the exact same setting we attach different meaning such as having a good time with family and friends and playing frisbee.
