SOCY 303 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paralegal, Gamesmanship, Sylvester Stallone

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 303
• Professor: W.Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Socy 336 main concepts: cultural matching/cultural fit (rivera 2012): * cultural matching between candidates, evaluators, and firms = employers sought candidates who were not only competent but also culturally similar to themselves in terms of leisure pursuits, experiences, and self-presentation styles. * companies are interested in hiring individuals that can be more than just a worker. * social status and location shape entry to workplace most dominant factor: phenomenology: * phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first- person point of view (individual"s understanding of social reality) * all social knowledge in interpreted through individual subjectivity. * how does it relate to symbolic interactionism: it is interpretivist, social constructive approach, social interactionism meaning is derived through interactions and phenomenology is derived through perceptions. * bevort and sabbady (2016): phenomenology people inhabit professional organizations. Over time, the core beliefs of institutions and their habits or reproduction become typified and so taken-for-granted that they become externalized.