SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Symbolic Interactionism, Impression Management, Flight Attendant
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Macro: big , so far what we"ve been studying in this course. Broad, involves graphs (quantitative data), marxist and functionalists= macro sociology. Micro: rose out of the dissatisfaction with macro sociology. Based on the theory that humans= meaning making animals. Our lives are constituted of ordinary meaning making. The large scale quantitative data and analysis misses the core of sociology which is what it is like being a social being? (interpretive approach) Structure( what you can/ cannot do) vs. agency( what can you do) It"s been around for a while, it"s not a new perspective. What we use, see and do every day (mundane and ordinary) Like banal to the complex (take something small and apply to a bigger concept) Temporal duration (cyclical aspect of time, unlike the linear macro approach) Engages our bodies and emotions unlike macro sociology. Largely happens while people are unaware of it. Breaching experiment: looks at how things became normalized.
