SOCL 3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alan Alda, Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism
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Symbolic interactionism: related micro theories, behaviourism, exchange theory, rewards vs costs and risks, social learning theory, ways we learn. Just like an actor presents a character to an audience: we need our audience to believe in the character we present to them, we need them to believe we are who and what we say we are. Human females cannot carry a fetus to birth, without risk (normally) until late teens. Risks to fetus and mother rise exponentially for every year over 35. In a normal pregnancy, the woman is 100% certain her genes will be (cid:396)ep(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ed i(cid:374) the (cid:272)hild. Cultu(cid:396)all(cid:455) (cid:449)e"(cid:448)e (cid:272)(cid:396)eated vaccines to prevent/cure said diseases: biologically humans cannot fly. Culturally we built machines to enable millions to fly every day. We are not limited by our biology: biologically, we are unique in the animal world, cognitive abilities, most advanced of any animal (that we know of, use languages, capacity for invention.
