SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Conflict Theories, Critical Thinking
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Soc101y1 lec2 sep/17 caron <>: heading of slide. Babbie: sociology is the study of our rules for living together, what they are, how they arise, and how they change: Study of interactions and relations among human beings. Study of how human beings live together in both the good times and the bad. Study of how rules are organized and perpetuated. Rules such as paying taxes, how to use knives and forks at dinner. Rules pertaining to hemlines, hair length, and political views operate a little like yoyos. There is a particular recursive quality in human life that makes anything we know tentative(=can modify). Whenever we learn something about ourselves, what we"ve learned may bring about changes-even to the extent of making what we learned no longer accurate. Eg. when we describe about group or individual, they can hear the description of oneself and change their behavior. People exhibit a desire to predict their future.
