SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Impression Management, Nonverbal Communication, Attention

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 107
• Professor: Melanie Knight

Document Summary

The opposite of (cid:494)nature(cid:495) (cid:498)the social production and reproduction of sense, meaning and production (cid:523)economics(cid:524) and social relations (cid:523)politics(cid:524)(cid:499) there are two forms: material and non-material. Culture is the stuff on the inside of society, in essence, the practice of everyday life. The sphere of meaning, which unifies the spheres of. Vast geography inherent regionalism us proximity and economic dependence. Colonial and immigrant histories quebec separatist movement. Culture: means of survival in the physical world: symbols, values, standards of behavior, norms, rules of behavior, sanctions, consequences, artifacts, material culture. Basis of all social life is our physical survival; But where is the connection to stuff and why we give things value and. Interaction between material culture (technology) and non-material culture (values and norms) Material shifts reconstitute social relations: new norms and values. Microsociology: symbolic interactionism is microsociology because of its study of face- to-face interaction. Exchanges of symbols through social interaction and the meanings we give to.