SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Coffee Preparation, Voluntary Association, Allen Ginsberg
Document Summary
Allen ginsberg tells a story about moving out of university residence then returning to pick up last things. When people are moving out they tend to remember their old home at the end of their stay by paying close attention to its appearance by writing, or photographing it. If you do not make any real or mental snapshots is called the acceptance of transitoriness. Contemporary sociologists- they specialize in study of material culture assume people engage in silent dialogues with objects. Objects bind people, generations, and classes symbolizing the kind of people we are or want to be and also help us remember the past. This chapter is all about human interaction with objects. The author of this chapter focuses on domestic artifacts human environment. Human object interaction is important in several studies called the sociology of consumption , material cultural studies, thing theory , and the socialness of things. The author goes to explain self identity by symbolic interactionsism.
