SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Albion Woodbury Small, Symbolic Interactionism, Hull House
11 Apr 2013
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The chicago school exciting time in sociology symbolic interactionism. Robert park built university of chicago: competition, conflict, assimilation common culture, conflict rose over status. City of urbanization and socialization research of sociological science. Feel community, feel person better investigation. Study of gangs and street culture very popular. Increasing preoccupation discipline of sociology became more scientific, instead of ethnographic definition of situations. Symbolic interactionism came out of chicago school. Chicago school didn"t look at conventional data or conventional autobiographies: life history data not fiction. Subjects view of situation life history data. What matters iw what/how people think of situations how they define situations mentally. People react behavie to their own realities. Definition of situation his work is central to symbol interactionism. Thomas claims that an indiv : meanings constructed by interactions with others. Group of women that represented early feminist theories unheard of how because of gender inequality.
