SOCI 2301H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Herbert Blumer, John Dewey, Symbolic Interactionism
2 Feb 2018
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Sociological imagination: c. wright mills, history, person vs public, action is shaped by others. Micro-sociology: small scale, face to face, everyday interaction. Agency: ability or power to control our own actions. Symbolic interactionism: we give meaning and act according to our social contexts, interactions, and processes of interpretation and role taking. Ethnography: research method involving systematic observation of individuals in their routine activities. Ethnographers can be participant or non-participants of the activities to which they study. Culture: ways of thinking, acting and feeling according to a particular group or society. Learned, maintained, and changed through interaction and communication with others in that group. Stereotype: a mental image that provides a common set of beliefs to characteristics towards members of a particular group. Three founders of symbolic interactionalism: charles pierce, harvard; primarily science and math; loved studying logic, william james. 2: father of american psychology; physician; change vs choice; free will; not: bear.
