SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Nonconformist, Behaviorism
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Outline: premises of symbolic interactionism, symbols and meaning making, the self, playing roles, non-conformism, assessing symbolic interactionism. Each theory core premises assumptions about the way the world works: human beings act toward things - on the basis of the meaning things have for them, premises of symbolic interactionism. What people say about rule-obeying or breaking depend on one"s moral compass+ On the contrary, symbolic interactionism focusses on the immediate daily interactions - how we each make rules and make sense of them] [we have to go beyond what is obvious, focus on what looks deceptively simple] [meanings are crucial; meanings are swallowed up by most theories, and we should be more attentive] [behaviourism combination of stimulus and response; reward for actions and punishment for others, we learn what is good behaviour and what is bad + We take what is happening in the world around us and value or devalue them]
