SOCIOL 2D06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Chicago School (Architecture), Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism
20 Apr 2016
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Chapter 2 perspectives in sociological social psychology. The study of how people negotiate the meanings of social life during their interactions with others. Met new people, negotiated new meaning for dancing fun . Begins when she meets someone who loves to dance, wanted to win him over so rethinks her attitudes toward dancing. Definitions of society will differ depending on perspective of researcher. Interactionist perspective: society exists as the network of interactions between people. This definition means that individual and society cannot be separated from each other. Individuals continually create and are molded by society. Assume it is impossible to study individual without incorporating study of society. When enough individuals in society begin to change the way they think, feel, or talk about an issue, society as a whole changes. Interactionist perspective: agency refers to our ability to act and think independently from constraints imposed by social conditions. We have the ability to make choices and decisions on our own.
