SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnography, Michel Foucault, Ethnomethodology

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: Christian Pasiak

Document Summary

Clarifying connections between culture and socialization, and socialization and social interaction. Theories of social interaction: symbolic interactionist perspectives feminist perspectives conflict perspectives. Goal: to build critical capacities to help us exercise our sociological imagination . Culture: shared symbols and their meaning; sociologists study how this meaning is generated. Socialization: a learning process associated with establishing a person"s sense of identity and conduct toward themselves and others in social interactions; learning and responding to cultural meaning; often learned directly through social interaction. Social interaction: act of relating with others in a social environment; particular patterns in social interactions may be learned through socialization; social interaction itself also socializes; cultural meaning is both learned and enacted through social interaction. Textbook authors define different levels of experience , differentiating between. They also talk about three different dimensions of space (height, width, depth), a fourth temporal dimension (time) and a fifth social dimension. These dimensions" can be easily operationalized and quantified in statistical research.