SOCIOL 1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Sociology, Variety Show, Social Fact
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Let us return once more to the image of the puppet theaterwe see the puppets dancing on their miniature stage, moving up and down as the strings pull them around, following the prescribed course of their various little parts. Metaphor: everyone has a role to play. We learn to understand the logic of this theater . We begin to understand why people do what they do, why people act as they do. And we find ourselves in its motionsfor a moment we see ourselves as puppets indeed. We can relate, and take on the role of the other. We can get lost/ believe that our lives are like those puppets. May feel this way in daily life. Pushed, pulled in one direction as we go through our daily existence by forces we cannot control. But then we grasp a decisive difference between the puppet theater and our own drama.
