SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Structural Functionalism, Socialization
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Relies on authority, tradition, and first hand experience. Suspends doubt about the world - more likely to take the world as it is. The way we understand "reality" is shaped by the society in which we live. People take away different things from movie, book etc. Age differences change the way we see things. Multiple social realities --> make sense of world in different ways. Interact with people based on interpretation / meanings --> reactions to actions will vary. Our experience of reality may therefore be challenged and changed --> people"s versions of reality at odds. Travelling to a new place, can pick up on details, things that are different because eyes are used to what you see --> discovering new way of living / acting. Ability to reflect on a group as an outside. Happens through major periods of change - key to birth of science. World is investigated for answers, for questioning rather that immediate action.
