SOCI 2070 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Hans-Georg Gadamer
30 Nov 2013
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The social actor: social actors is the term we sociologists give to human beings as members of social worlds, what it means in sociological terms for human beings to. Do their thing. (a) sociologists don"t accept human nature as an adequate account. (b) sociologists challenge accounts based on innate human characteristics. (c) sociologists emphasize that human beings are social beings. Quote from albert einstein: sociologists understand human behaviour in terms of human beings connectedness to others, stephen katz" reading is based on the sociological idea that the self is social. 2: the self is not another word for human nature. the self is not something we are born with, social selves are created through social interaction. Because the social sciences study human behaviour, their use of scientific procedures must reflect the characteristics of human subjects. (pge. 177 of reading) (c) use methods that view social actors as meaning-makers, interpretive. Examples: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=9g2nyj0gzt4 http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=zhavvcgx03w: building better worlds
