SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Consciousness, Class Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism
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It is a rich, complex, key to everyday living. Necessary to engage in almost all the day to day activities that you engage in. Relies on authority, tradition and first hand experience. Suspends doubt about the world more likely to take the world as it is. The way we understand reality" is shaped by the society that we live in. Every era has its own aspirations, values and standards. Gaining insights through increased social distance is distantiation (mannheim 2001) Happens through major periods of change key to birth of science. World is no longer taken for granted. World is investigated for answers, for questioning rather than immediate action. Science is about meticulously controlling for errors and go beyond tradition, authority, and first hand experience. Drawing on information from a larger field of cases. Independence of mind: a commitment and disposition favourable to autonomous thinking ex. Intellectual curiosity: the disposition to wonder about the world.
