SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism
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Social structure: the most basic, enduring, relative, stable, and determinative patterns of social relations. Examples: patriarchy, kinship, economy, politics, culture, sexuality, and racism. Microstructures: patterns of social relations on the small scale (one-on-one interactions, intimacy, local, etc. Macrostructures: patterns of social relations on a large scale, above and beyond individual relations. Examples: patriarchy, socio-economic class, racism, gender, & sexuality. Global structures: structures that encompass, crisscross, and permeate all societies. Examples: international economic organizations, global communications, & international political organizations. Symbolic interactionism: focus on micro-level interactions between individuals, social reality is constructed through the daily interaction of individuals, human agency: people do not just react to social circumstances; they actively create subjective meanings. Dramaturgical approach: people are social actors who manage their identities to create desired impressions from their audience (like actors: social interactions are similar to being in a play, defined roles, front stage & back stage.
