SOC224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Herbert Blumer, Erving Goffman, John Dewey
28 Sep 2017
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Most studying on chapter 1-3, some on 8. No social control: how do people become the people that they are; how do they understand particular behaviour in a situation, how we develop the knowledge of how to act in a situation. Interested in the way individuals act toward, respond to, and influence on another in society. I:the active portion of the self capable of performing behaviours. In particular social situations, we place ourselves in the position of others; we empathize with them, try to imagine their life: enables individuals to define the situation they are in and coordinate their behaviour with everyone else"s behaviour. Ie: stranger puts out hand to shake; you have many decisions ahead of you other than just shaking the hand, Intuition: chances are, the person is not playing the social game properly. Interested in how the relationship with the social interaction and individual self concepts and the role taking that follows your self concepts.
