SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Media Create, Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism
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Lecture 1 defining sociology and social institutions. Institution stable and shared pattern of behaviour based on ~stable values. We learn to behave in simliar ways to one another. Helps us understand what"s good and what"s bad, etc. We behave in ways that relate to what we believe in, producing a stable social order. Two main questions: (1) social inequality (why huge imbalance between state and equality). (2) How is it that social order is preserved well over long periods of time and different kinds of societies produce different kinds of social orders. Social institutions are stable patterns of behaviour created and maintained through scoial interaction. Interaction a socially recognized pattern of interrelated acts (ex. conversations, dating rituals). All social sturctures: control us, change us (as people move from one location to another, they change their behaviour in keeping with the social expectations of that venue), and both resist and produce social change.
