SOCA03Y3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Meritocracy, Polyamory, Caster Semenya

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Symbolic interactionism- is a micro approach to sociology because we start at the level. Small groups and how they make meaning. symbolic interactionists tend to use of individual"s in qualitative methods such as interviews. All social structures are created by interactions. I/me (mead): the i is un-socialized; me is socialized. Knowledge is socially produced within a web of power relations. Marxists overemphasize class and ignore gender race, sexuality. Surveillance and normalization serve to encourage/discourage behaviors. Socialization is the process by which people learn to become members of society (berger, person"s experiences in their environment. Looking glass self/reflected appraisals - (we see ourselves in the way we believe others. Mead"s stages of self-development - (from infancy to late adolescence) Agents of socialization- family, school, religion, workplace, friends/peers, media view us, in other words our sense of self develops from interaction with others) Genie: secrets of a wild child isolation? communicate by speaking a language.