SOCI 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Interactionism, Adolphe Quetelet, Social Statistics

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 336
• Professor: Francine Tremblay

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Lecture 1 johnson & the invention of the masses: september 12. The french beginnings of the discourse on the masses. People"s opi(cid:374)io(cid:374)s of group protests are so(cid:272)ially (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted relevant to that time and place, which may become norms. The article is still important today because we hold the same opinions about protests and collective action now, as we did back then. Protests, especially those that turn violent, are categorized as illegitimate. Y(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)is(cid:373): protester"s fates are sealed i(cid:374) history. Once we assigned them a label (annoying, disturbing), we cannot see them any other way. The invention of the mass a sociological theory is linked to the emergence of democracy and how the people should be presented, politically, culturally and ideologically. The ter(cid:373) (cid:862)(cid:373)ass(cid:863) u(cid:374)der(cid:449)e(cid:374)t four (cid:373)ai(cid:374) ter(cid:373)i(cid:374)ologi(cid:272)al (cid:272)larifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s: mass appears as numbers, masses are (cid:862)les (cid:373)isera(cid:271)les(cid:863, masses refer to organized workers unions, masses come to represent political sickness and mass insanity. Numbers are needed for political, moral and social reasons.