SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Group, George Herbert Mead, Neighborhood Watch
Document Summary
Shared knowledge: language is just one example of how shared understanding facilitates social interaction. Intersubjectivity: a common understanding between people about knowledge, reality, or an experience. People within a society share knowledge not just of their language but also of norms, customs, historical references and other useful info. Common perspective that enables them to understand how others see the world and allows society to function smoothly. words, it is socially constructed. Not only do we take our definitions of reality for granted so that we resist seeing society in all of its complexity, but these definitions can also have very real consequences. Thomas theorem: w. i. thomas helped to develop our thinking about the need for. They"re shared definitions that of reality have objective effects. If we are to understand how and why humans act the way they do, we need to pay attention to how they define reality and how that definition influences their behavior.
