SOCI 30 Lecture 2: week 2 m
framing
● The act of surrounding situations, acts or objects with a set of concepts
(symbols) which influence how people organize, perceive, and communicate
about reality
● Provides/creates context
● Transorms ontet’s meanin
● Separates realms of experience
● Confines
● Ignore surroundings
Frameworks and the construction of reality
● A taken for granted body of cultural knowledge influences individual action
● Frameworks (rules, beliefs, practices, thoughts, emotions are socially
constructed
○ Socialized
○ Subjected
○ Influx
● Creates our ommon sense
Frameworks and common sense
● What does your common sense tell you about eating insects? How about
meat?
● How does this frame your understanding of what is edible or inedible?
● How are these rameworks supported our ulture’s elies and ommon
sense narrative
● Where have you learned this common sense?
● How does context matter?
● Are your thoughts about eating insects rational?
● Do other cultures use a different framework?
How is social order maintained?
● Through interaction
○ We internalize language and symbol based meaning systems
○ These meaning based system allows us to coordinate with others
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