SOC224 Lecture Notes - Cheap Sunglasses
25 Apr 2013
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Feb 26 social construction: sometimes things can be different than what we expected, these false perceptions are from the media, the media constructs things as being more awesome than what they are. Make certain we are talking about the same thing. Create shared meaning of a thing or symbol through interaction (collectively held) Holds significance for how we think about the thing itself. When we hear the word cat, we generate shared meanings through our interaction. Through our interaction we understand what things are. This allows us to have a convo about cats. Our mind reaches beyond our box to what that thing is. Over time, discourse fills them up with content. Our views on things come from a society that constructs them. Only when a group think a certain way does that idea become part of discourse and reality.
