SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism
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Propositions that seek to explain the social world and help to make predictions about future events. Worked to establish sociology as an important academic discipline. Studied the social factors that bond and hold people together. In suicide, he studied the relationship between social isolation and suicide at the macro-level. German philosopher and political activist who contributed significantly to sociology"s conflict theory. Marx theorized that capitalism created social inequality. Predicted that inequality leads to class theory. Concerned with the rationalization, applying economic logic to all human activity. Believed that contemporary life was filled with disenchantment. The result of the dehumanization features of modern societies. Studied the connection between thought and action or between the individual and society. Suggested that social processes give meaning to objects in our society-people interact, and meanings come from these interactions. Studied how the self is developed through interactions with others in society. Used the term dramaturgy to describe the way people strategically present themselves to others.
