SOCI 2070 Lecture Notes - Social Order, Antipositivism, Erving Goffman
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Rita felski, the invention of everyday life: habit. , susie scott, making sense of everyday life. , The main concepts context social actors as meaning makers social interaction social action as oriented the social self social institutions. Other important concepts we collected along the way: social interaction, inter-subjective reality, shared understandings, tacit knowledge, the-world-taken- for-granted. It is oriented towards others, tries to convey a meaning. 5. interpretive sociologists build on max weber"s definition of social action. (scott) interpretive sociologists usually draw from weber"s work: social action is oriented in nature. Felski said because we spend most of our lives doing these mundane tasks they are key and we must observe and understand a persons mundane routines and tasks. 9. rita felski offers some important cautions about approaching the study of everyday life: Felski is conducting a critical analysis of the concept of every day life -- is the focus of some fiction novels, is in political and feminist studies, etc.
