SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Symbolic Interactionism, International Inequality, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
Systematic study of human action in context. Following processes that are acceptable to gather information. Discipline of sociology changes all the time. Growing discipline - full of different possibilities. Use different techniques to approach a discipline that s always changing. Epistemology: what is knowledge; how do we know what we know. Impact of different institutions around us (i. e. policies) Context of where you live, government, etc. Opportunities and constraints are not evenly distributed. Founding figures: durkheim, marx, weber (used scientific principle to describe what they were seeing around them - rapid changes across societies) Culture: what makes one country different than another; what makes it unique; norms, values, religion. Socialization: process which we learn/pick up culture. Groups and organization: drastic changes from individual relationships to larger organizations/ groups. Class and stratification: notions of economics; privilege. Race and ethnicity: markers affect and change the way humans interact.
