SOCIOL 2D06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jack Layton, Jigsaw Puzzle, Erving Goffman

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2D06
• Professor: Leanne Joanisse

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Brief overview of symbolic interactionism oct 22 2012. Society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and small groups. Symbol something that meaniningfully represents something else (written. It is a study of how people interact with other people or spoken word or a gesture) Interaction refers to the ways, 2 or more people respond to one another. Most interactions among human beings is symbolic. Depends on words and actions that have meanings beyond themselves. Within social psychology, symbolic interactionism had traditionally been the one mose concerned with the meanings that people give to actions and events, and with understanding how these meanings Ones dogs gesture automatically elicits a gesture from the second dog. Have no control over their gestures, instinctual manifestations also on the exam. Meads work on social acts and social object on 3 components: animal has impulses (incipient acts) seeking enactment, animal then encounters stimuli favoring one or another of this incipient acts.