SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Metanarrative, Feminist Theory
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Rich, complex, and key to everyday living. Is involved in everything we do on a day to dat basis. Relies on authority tradition and rst hand experience. Suspends doubt about the world- more likely to the worlds as it is. Institutions in general social construction of reality: We have a diverse set of understanding about the world. Our understanding of reality is shaped by society in which we live. We all come from different backgrounds so different values and standards. Our social realities can be challenged and changed process of distantiation : Happens through major periods of change: world is no longer taken for granted scienti c knowledge: World is investigated for answers, for questioning rather then immediate action. Id we used scienti c knowledge to make all our decisions (explore all possibilities) we would be practically paralyzed. Common sense knowledge is not wrong or right but useful characteristics of critical thinking :
