SOCI 2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Honor Killing, Work Ethic

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2013
• Professor: Melodie Griffis

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Symbolic interactionism: what is social construct? (cid:862)co(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) se(cid:374)se is (cid:449)hat tells us the earth is flat(cid:863) albert einstein. Process where people continuously create a shared reality through actions and interactions. Experienced as: objectively factual, subjectively meaningful. The vast majority of what we know/accepted as true has been taught to us. The asch experiment (asch paradigm: group conformity. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s are i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y the surrou(cid:374)di(cid:374)g i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals" (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior. The society we grow up in/live in or around, influences our thoughts, lifestyle, and decision making. Least-constructed concepts socially-constructed concepts: the need to eat, need of shelter, need to sleep, a (cid:373)other"s lo(cid:448)e for her child. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility to o(cid:374)e"s parents: favoritism/corruption in police. Some concepts are so particular to a certain society, that they cannot be understood, or even compared, by other societies: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s rights.