SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: George Herbert Mead, Bungee Jumping, Erving Goffman
Document Summary
Ego works for the id; it wants you to have what you want, just in a socially acceptable way. We set of social institutions to allow the id to express itself. Instead of jumping in front of a bus, you could go bungee jumping to fulfill that want. Preconventional: ages 0-5 roughly, behavior is purely self-serving. Conventional: ages 6-7/8 roughly, wants social approval, start becoming a member of a group, moral majority thinking. Postconventional: ages 8-12 roughly, morally judging the rules and norms by which we live. Focus: the social interactions of people in specific social settings. Society: is a product of the everyday interactions of people. Humans attach and create meaning for everything in our lives. We construct our reality as we give meaning to our surroundings and interactions with each other. Max weber: verstehende sociology: there is nothing neutral or value free in our society, all about the meaning that we give to things.
