SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethnomethodology, Symbolic Interactionism, Herbert Blumer
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Oct. 19, lecture #6 socialization & social interaction. Freud: only social interaction allows the self to emerge. Mead: i (individual impulses, self as subject) & me (generalized other, self as object) Who we are depends on how we interact with people. Many of these different individual aspects that are shaped by our social environment will go unnoticed. Habitus is different from habit in one important respect: habitus are not just the consequences of. Our individual history(i. e. outcomes) but they are also generative (i. e. Our individual history(i. e. outcomes) but they are also generative (i. e. causes) System of durable dispositions where our past experiences are integrated into how we behave, which them impact our perceptions, our appreciations and our actions. Lead us to see particular things and understand the world in particular ways, to have different tastes, and to make key distinctions between what is right and what is wrong, and so forth.
