SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture : Lecture 34 - February 13th.docx

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Thomas: had more influence than park on the development of symbolic interactionism, thomas is now best known for developing the concept of the definition of the situation, there is an objective reality (what actually exists) and a subjective reality (what we think exists, the concept of the definition of the situation indicates that people respond to the subjective meaning a situation as for them rather than to the objective features of the situation, example: at a party and talking to several people at this party and you don"t know these people very well. In 1959, goffman published his book presentation of self in everyday life : this book was extremely influential that took symbolic interactionism in a new direction, goffman"s work built on mead"s work but goffman took symbolic interactionism in a different direction, goffman wrote a number of papers that developed dramaturgical theory between the 1950s and 1970s.

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