01:920:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georg Simmel, Valedictorian
4 Mar 2020
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The frame of a picture symbol of boundaries already given to us (structure) Frames serve as a message of what should be known (culture), and what can be known (agency) Questions on structure, culture, and agency: unemployment persists at a regular rate of 7% for a year. 7% of the population, therefore cannot find work and live in poverty. _______________: town x has a 50% unemployment rate. In town x many youths participate in criminal activity. These youths develop a code of the streets". _______________: jimmy lives in town x but he rejects the code of the street and graduates valedictorian of his high school. He goes on to college and gets a good job. _______: jimmy"s classmate, sam chooses to deal drugs. Sam gets in an altercation on the street and someone dies. Sam, as a result, ends up in jail. ________________: sam"s parents are both in prison.
