CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Harold Garfinkel, Cultural Relativism

• School: Boston University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: CAS SO 100
• Professor: Julian Go

Document Summary

Ethnomethodology harold garfinkel: the study of the methods of people maintaining social order o methods by which people maintain social norms and social order in daily interactions. Studies show that we cant handle breaches, we have to give an account. Ex. if you see borat at dinner, you say that its only cause hes a foreigner. Gives things against social norms an explanation so you can make sense of the situation (giving an account) which restores social order. Culture and media: values = moral beliefs (murder is wrong, norms = beliefs in action (believe murder is wrong, so we don"t murder people, socialization (learn and internalize norms, breaching (breaking norms) Culture the sum of social categories and concepts we recognize in addition to our beliefs, behaviors, and practices: material vs nonmaterial culture o nonmaterial culture includes the values and norms of any given social group.