SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Informed Consent, Tea House, Laud Humphreys
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Job you do affects everything you do in your life: conflict between owners and workers. Max weber (1864-1920: wrote a book called the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Means that you are supposed to work hard. Need a high religious nation to end with a high capitalistic nation: steps. Business expands: symbolic interactionist and/or functionalist. Erving goffman(1922-1982) symbolic interactionist: studied the process of face to face communication in social interation, book called presentation of self in everyday life. Front stage is what you do when your around people that you don"t know well. Back stage is how you behave when your with your best friends or alone. Audience- we want our audience to like us, we play for them. Stages/costumes- we wear our costumes ex. dress as students. C. wright mills (1916-1962: wrote the book the sociological imagination (1959) Can see social forces on individuals especially. Go back and forth between public issues and personal troubles.