Sociology 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oliver Sacks, Social Order, Activity Theory
2 Jan 2018
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Oliver sacks learning to see: ordering our sense of the world. What it is that we experience, why something is the way it is how it is that we might act or react to it Consider 5 analytical questions (dimensions) for accessing theories and. Concern with adjustment of aging individual to society. What responsibilities do we accept re: elderly. Looking t how we treat age as a society. Way that social relations are organized based on age. Younger and older age groups tend to experience different advantages and disadvantages in access to opportunities and constraints. Other structures social relations include: gender, class, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation. Meso level of analysis: social institutions = particular spheres of social life, ex. Family, work, education, leisure: interactive frame work, macro meso micro , normative vs interpretive. Established rules and status hierarchies (structure social relations in society) Thus individuals have little control over their life.
