SOCIOL 3488 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons, Frankfurt School
9 Sep 2016
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Split between those for laisse-faire doctrine and those for government aided social reform. Aimed at social reform: race theory: w. e. b. Veil: separation between whites and blacks but visibility between. Double consciousness: two-ness of african americans seeing themselves through others eyes. Double consciousness kind of like cooley"s looking-glass self: people in chicago school, frankfurt school, structural functionalism and race. Du bois: differences between phenomenology and ethnomethodology. F. 1. phenomenology: study of how objects appear to the human consciousness. F. 2. ethnomethodology: study of common sense knowledge and everyday practices of ordinary members of society: american vs. european theory. American: attempt to theorize the integration of micro and macro levels of social reality. European: attempt to theorize integration of agency and structure (agency = human choice: modern vs. postmodern. Focus on peripheral (rather than core) issues: critical theories of race and racism and queer theory (compare and contrast) All social life and institutions are structured through performative sexuality.
