Sociology 1025A/B Lecture 3: 21Jan_ Theory to Methods
4 Mar 2019
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Ethnography: trying to get into the culture to understand that culture. (exchange program). For example, skaters as a sub-culture, bringing the young ones organized groups. By communicating with others, through words, facial expression, gestures and clothing, we develop meanings and understandings of ourselves and others. For example, the study about the wink , if someone winks at you, it could be humour, the flirty wink, secret communication. It is also cultural you might not eye contact in certain culture and you just develop it over time. The idea of socialization, how we communicate (non-verbal: interacting with people speaking another language). This is the one links closely to psychology. It doesn"t matter if these are real or not, if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. For example, races are what we define it and believe it to be true .
