SOCY 303 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sensemaking, Symbolic Interactionism, Antipositivism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 303
• Professor: W.Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Socy 303 lecture # 11 (week 6: bevort and sabbady (2016, context: Bureaucratic control professional organizations that set mandates and rules / general competitions with other physicians and control from managers. Simple/direct direct observation/ role of manager is important in this framework. Technical where technology is used to control the pace of work in some way. E. g. call center work phone is setting place of work for a worker. Bureaucratic based on the position of individual in the hierarchy: barker and sewell (2006): Post-bureaucratic non-hierarchal organizations/people work in teams. These students" choice of professional schools was a seamless one, going with the grain of others" expectations. An interpretive approach to understanding access to professions. Interpretivism: opposite of positivism, subjective meaning over social laws, grasp the participants" point of view, researchers should have empathy, symbolic interactionism. Taking the role of the others (mead) Constant interpretation of symbolic meaning of environment. Goal to understand the interpretation: ontological considerations.