SOCB58H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Symbolic Interactionism, Collective Identity, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
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Sociology of culture lecture 4 identity and movements: recap: durkheim: culture comes from society (macro level) Categories of meaning- even simple members of time and space. Collective representation collective belong through collective representation. Durkheim argues that mechanical solidarity (social organization of human beings are in small groups) organic solidarity (everybody in society does not need to know each other but everyone has a role to play): symbolic interactionist (micro level) The self and self identity are socially derived. Subcultures and idiocultures are people making culture together and using culture to construct boundaries. Somewhere in between durkheim and symbolic interactionist is fields as (meso level) theory: cornelia nixon: She gets from her first draft to second draft from her writing group and husband who help her with the title of her novel, and her husband who infuses the novel with community. : constructing a collective identity (socially and culturally constructed): Collective identities are formed in numerous ways over time.
