Sociology 3321F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Impression Formation, Symbolic Interactionism, Personal Identity
28 Oct 2017
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Chapter 3- a social psychology of identities and their formation: psych focus subjective aspects ident (sense ident) and soc focusing objective (roles people play/ social statuses occupy) Other 2 trads symbolic interactionism and personality and social structure perspective: pssp- most suitable task dev comprehensive understanding ident explicit recog relevance. Last level analysis most commonly referred to as macro-soc level analysis. Conclusion: cars, engines and traffic congestion: psychs more interested what happens inside individs and soc more interested happens. Inside societites- rel but not reducible one another, as following comp dif forms knowledge about behav of automobile shows. Identity and individuality interchangeable- sometimes includes idea conformists don"t have ident but certain amount conformity desirable b/c necessity individ and comm (basic integration component ident) but certain individuality desirable as well (fund dif) Institutional- greater emph social idents vs impulsive- personal idents: college students personal idents (styles self-presentation) seem to be increasing importance and social idents (socially recog roles) increasingly less important.
