SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pragmatism, George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism
28 Feb 2018
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Two broad approaches to the nature of social reality. That which cannot be measure does not exist . Reality is a world of structure (both external:psychological and internal:social) External forces/factors: combining things to produce speci c outcomes. Internal structures that produce particular outcomes: perception, personality, traits. Determinist (cause and effect): behaviour, outcome, pattern, phenomenon. Reality is a world of activity and meaning making. The major approach in sociological social psychology. Focus: the construction, negotiation and permutation of meaning through social interaction. Everything in group life, is the result of a group process. Ideas and connections not always neat and tidy . Not everyone could read, so was important. Hermeneutics: the interpretation of classical greek and religious texts. The looking glass self 3 elements: the imagination of our appearance to others, the imagination of their judgement of us, self-feelings, such as pride or embarrassment. Sympathetic introspection (getting inside peoples interpretive processes) They are all related in some way: signi cant symbols.
