SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism
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Members of various social groups working together. Born into a wealthy family profiting from the industrial revolution in germany. Social classes: more than just workers vs. capitalists. Social change: more than just economic explanations. The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Main teaching focused on denying self-pleasures and focusing on hard work, discipline. Those who could earn the most money save it, and use it to expand their work, business were saved . The need to understand a culture from its own point of view, if you were actually in it. Interpretation from an outsider will be different from an insider"s interpretation. People are able to make rational decisions. Born that way, nothing we can do about it. Nurture focuses on how we are raised and our social conditions. Sociology usually agrees with the nurture side. The self as a product of social experience . Without social interaction (nurture), no personality will emerge as a human gets older.
