SOCI 140 Lecture 2: GSOCI 140- The Individual in Society – Lecture 2- Social Constructing
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Gsoci 140: the individual in society lecture 2: social constructing. The two sides of sociology: making familiar what people do not understand, gaining new understanding of the familiar. The strange, foreign, deviant trying to see how they"re just like us . To make the familiar unfamiliar, sociologists show how reality itself arose through human activities. Sociologists try to show this to reveal who has the power, inequalities, assumptions, inconsistencies, paradoxes, contradictions. Much of our everyday knowledge is based on accepting as real the existence of things that can"t be seen, touched, or proved ( the world taken for granted ) We socially construct marriage, marriage doesn"t have to be the way it is, marriage isn"t biological, and it is an idea, we assume it exists independently of us. Dates & time: thursday", it feels like thursday ; days are things that we treat as real, they aren"t real. Correspondence between socially shared or objective reality and subjective experience.
