SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Erving Goffman, Turnitin, Microstructure
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Everyday life: labeling theory, ethnomethodology, process, interaction meaning, ongoing practical accomplishment, common sense, taken for grantedness, reality 5 key features, social order, breaching experiments. Today we have 2 interesting readings by howard becker and. There are many things in common in them. They both deal with some kinds of deviance. Garfinkel doesn"t explain deviance in ways to find social order but deviating from social expectations. Labeling theory radically new way of understanding deviance. He explained much of how deviance develops is when they are labeled. It doesn"t have anything to do with marijuana, psychological, genetic relations. To show that in large extent, people act in a way that they are labeled. Becker"s idea is very consistent with those ideas that sense of self and meanings to things we do have not very much to do with internal relations but things that are outside and around us. Marijuana use back then he studied it.
