SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Anthropology, Symbolic Interactionism, Information Explosion
11 Feb 2015
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A causal link between two phenomena, a theory, explains the results, predicts behaviour. His theory highlights a relationship between two or more concepts, in this case the. The more television people watch, the lower their involvement in civic life will be concepts are civic engagement and television watching. Attempt to examine peoples day to day interactions and their behaviour in groups: people continue to negotiate their social realities, values and norms are not the independent realities that automatically determine their behaviour. Each person has a subjective interpretation of a given situation (subjective reality. Key theory: that a eurocentric lens conditions our view of all cultures and that the culture of our age produces a social world that is not real, but simulated. Need to speak of cultures not culture. Characteristics: information explosion, rise of consumer society, global village image, post-industrial society. There is no single unified approach: many different feminisms (liberal, radical, socialist )
