SOCL 2001 Chapter : SOCL 2001 Chapter 1 Notes
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When you travel to a different culture you realize it"s obviously different. Now, question why is it different: social institutions, social institutions are networks of structures in society that work to socialize the groups of people within them, examples. 8/28/15: early american sociology became prominent at the university of chicago, so the perspective that emerged became known as the chicago school . Chicago thinkers include: charles horton cooley, george herbert mead, w. i. Society came up with these gender roles: symbolic interactionism, states that we use ques to understand meaning in our everyday life through the interactions that we have with other people, we interact with people every day. The symbols or ques we receive from each other are for example a smile or wave. You witness the interaction happening and you assign some sort of meaning to it subconsciously. We have shared understanding for different symbols: postmodernism, different ways of thinking about what is going on.
