CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism, Group Dynamics
2 Jan 2017
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Sociology and other disciplines from conley reading pg 15-39: versus history o there are some differences, history is about unique events in society, sociology is about recurrences that exist in society. Hitler and unique events of the time = historians, sociologists talk about hitler in terms of common patterns as he talks about fascism so they would compare fascism with nazi germany and the fascism in. Mussolini italy, or look at why people would follow after hitler"s lead o sociology is more nomothetic (looks for patterns or general laws) and comparative (finding variance to explain outcomes) Idiographic = unique, singular = history: versus psychology (and biology) o sociology is interested in supra-individual levels of analysis (groups, societies, nations, etc) while psychology is more interested in individual-level analyses. Explain group dynamics with references to psychology (soc) Soc would ask ex. why people in france are more depressed than other countries (ex. group level)
