SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Metanarrative, The Sociological Imagination, Macrosociology
2 Feb 2018
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Microsociology seeks to understand local interactional contexts, focusing on face-to-face encounters and gathering data through participant observations and in-depth interviews. Macrosociology generally looks at social dynamics across whole societies or large parts of them and often relies on statistical analysis to do so. Social identity is how individuals define themselves in relationship to groups they are a part of (or in relationship to groups they choose not to be a part of). We all contribute to one another"s social identity, which can also be thought of as a grand narrative constructed of many individual stories. A social institution is a group of social positions, connected by social relations, that perform a social role. Social institutions, such as the legal system, the labor market, or language itself, have a great influence on our behavior and are constantly changing.
