SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Intersubjectivity, Antonio Gramsci, Erving Goffman
17 Jan 2014
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Looked at the social world; determined that most of the social world works exactly the way we think it does: collectively known as functionalists; look at societies as functioning, argue that whatever we decide to do in a society is for our collective best interest (i. e. most think, conflict theorists; they argue that societies don"t work in everyone"s best interest, rather they are set up so that we are competing for available resources some people retain more resources than others do. Believed we can study society as a science; that there are natural laws we just have to figure them out ( natural social laws" of human existence) (think darwin discoveries that we still use today to explain things: believed social thinking passed through three stages; 1)assumption that the world was run by supernatural, powerful gods 3) idea that nature replaced the belief in a miraculous god 3) application of science to understand the social world.
