ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Straitjacket, Urban Sociology, Social Constructionism
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Self and others: mead, blumer and symbolic interactionism. The chicago school is very important as it is where micro sociology originated birth of urban sociology popular in 90s. Micro sociology weber"s ideas that social life is organised through meanings attached to actions. University of chicago the first sociology department in the us dominated debates of 20s and 30s. The chicago school highly influential in crime/deviance studies; urban sociology; social psychology; real world methods, ethnography. Chicago academics engaged with european academics and were influenced by work of max. Social constructionism over positivism epistemological debates. Dialogue with psychological theory and debate (freud; behaviourism) trying to bridge psychology and sociology divide. Chicago school foundations of symbolic interactionism. University of chicago department of philosophy - philosopher, and social psychologist". Schooled in american pragmatism (john dewey; c. s. pierce) meaning comes from what works in practice. Blumer coined the term symbolic interactionism, but the idea originated with mead.
