SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Erving Goffman
Document Summary
Starting new discussion in the course on cognitive sociology. Key idea - looking at patterns of thinking that are culturally shared. It was founded in late 90"s in the u. s. by zerubavel, a major figure (godfather) in cognitive sociology. Lays the foundation for this approach in the chapter we read. Chapter is like a manifesto to cs (cognitive sociology) Cs = cognitive sociology for the rest of the ntoes. Similar notions of share ideas / norms among a group of people. Zerubavel laying foundation for basic cognitive acts such as remembering, meaning, classifying etc. basically all the things we do in our minds) the basic things we do in our head to make sense of world around us. Previous readings not interested in the nitty gritty of thinking like zerubavel. Cs looking at how groups of people construct meaning. This is what cs is trying to do, unpack this meaning.
