SOC223 Study Guide - Final Guide: Group Dynamics, Ethnography, Identity Document
11 May 2013
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(a) outline the basic premises/assumptions of symbolic interactionism (mead, blumer, chpt. Individuals in themselves only become social beings when they tap into the language of the community. Becker the novice learns through direct teaching. Becker continued users had acquired necessary concepts with which to express himself that fact that he was experiencing new sensations caused by the drug. Becker an experienced user talks about how you have to reassure novice users. Come on with your own story the same things happened to me: enabling people to see themselves from the standpoint of the other and to. Becker what was once frightening and distasteful becomes, after a taste for it is built up, pleasant, desired, and sought after. Enjoyment is introduced by the favourable definition of the experience that one acquires from others. User has sensations --- go beyond any conception he had of what it might mean to be high: notion of agency.
