SOCI 1210 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Structural Functionalism, Proletariat, Norm (Social)

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Focus is on understanding or interpreting human activity in terms of the meanings that humans attribute to it. Provides a theoretical perspective that helps scholars examine the relationship of individuals within their society. Perspective is centered on the notion that communication, or the exchange of meaning through language and symbols, is how people make sense of their social worlds. Sees people as active in shaping their world, rather than as entities who are acted upon by society. Humans act toward things on the basis of the meanings that ther ascribe to those things. The meaning of such things is derived from, or arises out of, the social interaction that one has with others and the society. These meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretive process used by the person in dealing with the things they encounter. People interact indirectly, by interpreting the meaning of each other"s actions, gestures, or words.

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