SOC205H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Erving Goffman, Temperance Movement In The United States, George Herbert Mead
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Human interaction is undertaken with the aid of symbols can be used to signify other things. In particular, we use language - and words. Thomas coined the famous dictum that if we "define situations as real, they are real in their consequences" In addition to symbolic interactionism the other major influence on such work was a form of sociology informed by ethnomethodology phenomenology and associated with scholars such as alfred schutz and. Ethnomethodologists such as garfinkel focused on the ways in which everyday activities are made meaningful and on occasion this was done through shock tactics - usually referred to as "breaching experiments" Using the symbolic interactionist work on "the self" - associated with scholars such as george herbert mead and charles cooley - argued that delinquents are not inherently different from non. 1930s: frank tannenbaum"s work on juvenile delinquency contained some of the elements of what would later become recognised as "labelling theory"
