SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, American Middle Class, Cultural Turn

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Common-sensical explanations of social life are usually: Abused families usually think other families are abused too) Marred by voluntaristic bias(not realistic, greek will ) (people with good ideas, attitudes, and values have good lives, depend on their own actions. ) Aware those events are shaped not only by individual agency, but also by cultures and social structures that cause, or even force, people to experience conditions they would rather avoid. Sociology is a study of social behavior in human societies. Emphasis on agency, current in sociology of the 2000s(near liberalism: market should be left free from governments) Knezevic: sociology is a study of social relations, created in an interaction of agency, social structure and culture. Social structure: a relatively stable network of social relations that enable and constrain individual agency. Culture: ideas (understanding, values, norms) about society. Society has an existence of its own (not a sum of individuals, not an illusion- cf. post- modernism)

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