SOCL 3101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Symbolic Interactionism, Georg Simmel, Harold Garfinkel
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Social structure maintained through organized activities of individuals with goals and intensions. Social structure only exists to the extent that people orient themselves toward it and internalize it. Objective culture- parts of culture outside the individual. Subjective culture- people"s ability to produce, internalize, and maintain objective culture. Sociologists should study people"s actions (simmel"s thought) Simmel noticed how when we are presented with social situation, we think about what that situation is going to require from us. Mentally, we try different courses of action. (how the situation will work out, what will happen) we then decide what action to take. Consciousness of self allows us to step outside ourselves and think about who we are. The active part of self, us when we"re doing something. Our response to set of attitudes that others have toward us. Self that"s an object, ability to step outside ourselves and visualize ourselves as an object.