BIOL 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociological Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, The Sociological Imagination
10 Apr 2018
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and relations between the two within society. Your sex, social class, race/ethnicity are 3 categories that intersect and have the most profound effects on your life history. Feminist theory was a response to to social change. The structural-functional approach and the social con ict perspective are both microlevel approaches (characterize society as a whole) Symbolic interactionists perceive society as the product of everyday interactions of individuals also take a microlevel approach to interpret human interactions (a focus on social interactions in speci c situations). They also create our experienced social reality: structural-functionalism: the value" of integration of the components of society, cohesion; shared values, consensus, social con ict: the value" of recognizing con ict/power inequities for explaining society and social change n. Symbolic interactionism: the value" of being conscious of the creativity of humans (weber argued that human action/interaction was motivated) as we negotiate our lives and create social realities.
