SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Big Bang, Social Actions, Structuration Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Micro encounters and patterned integration among individuals (communications, exchange, cooperation, and conflict) Macro structures in society (groups, organizations, institutions, cultural productions) sustained (imperfectly) by mechanisms of social control and constituting opportunities and constraints on individual behaviour and interactions. Micro/macro in discourse of an integrated conception of society. Science and art of terms and conceptual grasp. May be separated analytically to be synthetically integrated again. Example: the video of the hockey goal. Macro event: the larger significance within the canadian society and it being able to bring the society together even in such a pressing time. Social practises ordered across space and time. Social action is a continuous flow of conduct . Social activities, like some self-reproducing items in nature, are recursive. From myriad of ways of acting social action is recursive practises recur (reoccur) Social actions are not brought into being each time. Social actions are continually produced and reproduced.