SOCI 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Actions, C. Wright Mills, Vise

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2070
• Professor: Janice Newson

Document Summary

Lecture 9 outline: social action and social institutions. Social actor: always social, always in connection with others. We don"t all see the world the same way that act on some kind of drive or instinct and do the same thing all the time. Human beings are more able, have the capacity because they have consciousness to interpret the world, because we don"t see the world the same way. Now we are going to look how those social actors through interaction create a social world; a family (the notion of a family and how it works), a society. The primary social idea we"re building on is from weber, who gave us a social definition of action that we are using that accommodates all of the ideas we have been discussing so far. It means we take in to account what the other is meaning from their action.