SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Interactionism, American Civil Liberties Union, Microsociology
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Examines human behavior within broader social context. Social location: group memberships: social location example: boys = blue, girls = pink. It used to be switched, pink was masculine because it meant strength and power while blue was feminine because it represented calm and the virgin mary. Mills and social context: every society has a history, everyone has a biography, external influences shape our thoughts and motivations. Example: society stresses the importance of getting an education that is why we are here in class today. Comte: positivism apply scientific method to society. Spencer: survival of the fittest societies evolve from barbarian to civilized theories up: they both had these theories but no research to back their (three most well known sociologists) Marx: key to social change economics, class conflict bourgeoise. & proletariat, and revolution classless society, no exploitation: marx was against having separate classes. Weber: key to social change religion, catholic traditional lifestyle to enter heaven, protestant unknown till judgment day.
