Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: False Consciousness, Bell Hooks, Antonio Gramsci
16 Sep 2018
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Marx cont : alienation: the process by which workers are disconnected from what they produce. People act towards thing based on the meaning those things have for them; and these meanings are derived from social interactions and modified through interpretation (blumer). Symbolic interactionsim: highlight the ways in which meanings are created, constructed, mediated and changed by members of a group or society, w. i thomas: thomas theorem. Things that we dean are real are real as the consequences (we socially construct things around us: max weber, verstehen: a deep understanding and interpretation of subjective social meanings. George simmel: a society is the summation of human experience and its pattenrs inetractions. Modern social theories: should not be thought of as completely separate from classical theories, draw on each others work in their formulations, recurring theme o power runs through many modern theories.
