Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Group, Sensory Deprivation, Erving Goffman
10 Apr 2020
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Sociology 1020 - week 6 : reading notes. A collection of people who interact with one another and who have a shared sense of belonging. All cultures impose on their young some very strict rules about the most basic of needs. This sets up the first great conflict between individual and society. Freud saw this as one of the first lessons of dominance and social control. Powerful groups (i. e. parents) determines what is is normal and what is not normal (deviant). Positive affirmations - or claims, groups use these to establish boundaries. Signal who is in the group and who is out. Negative affirmations - what someone in the group is not allowed to do if they want to be a member. Symbolic boundaries -- symbolic ideas and values about who the group members are (gives the group their identity. Physical and symbolic boundaries work to define groups.
