SOC 1300 Lecture 3: Chapter 3
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Harvey molotch: studied power, social interactions, culture. Implementation of social norms: everyone knows what you are doing in there, but no one must know that you have been there. Self: individual reflection on one"s own identity and social position: made and reformulatd through interaction. Interactionism: that the social self is the only kind of self there can be. Looking glass self: we see ourselves as others see us: coined by charles cooley. Interaction has a lot to do with our self perfection. Ethnomethodology: study of people"s methods: people always take context into account. Civil inattention: noticing another is present, but ignoring them to an appropriate degree. Significant other: an individual close enough to you to motivate your behavior: coined by george mead. You may imitate how they move, dress, live life. Generalized other: social control by avoiding doing things that are socially inappropriate. Socialization: process through which we come to understand expectations and norms of a group.