SOCC40H3 Lecture : ALL SOCC41 Lecture Notes.pdf
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11-04-09 12:16 pm: symbolic interactionism: sociological paradigm. The movement puritanism is congressionalist in part: mead was born in massacusetts, he went to oberlin university (founded in 1833). Eugenic movement believed that poor people were innately inferior to wealthy people. The progressive movement was also responsive to the eugenic movement. Mead had to drop out of oberlin (financial problems) and re- enrolled and studied under the great william james. Mead under his wing and sponsored him. , which may explain why. Mead won a scholarship and went to germany. While he was in germany he got influenced by simmel. The individual creates a class and you cannot have a class without the individual. Mead is a philosopher as well as a sociologist : park and burges, 2. A interacts with b, a acts as a stimulus for b. Human interaction makes cooperative behaviour possible. Social act demands that individuals project themselves mentally into the positions of those people they are interacting with.