SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead, Jean Piaget, Erving Goffman
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What are the different sociological and psychological approaches to the development of the self? (concepts by charles horton cooley, george herbert mead, erving goffman, and jean. Impression management: creating distinctive appearances to satisfy particular audiences. Face-work: maintaining a proper image of the self. Social structures are the organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose society. Structural analysis looks at patterns in social life that reflect and produce social behavior. Human society is a system of social interaction that includes both culture and social organization. It involves social interaction between two or more people. According to durkheim, society is greater than the sum of its parts. Sociologists recognize and examine the interrelatedness of the individual parts to understand how society operates. A social institution is an established and organized system of social behavior with a recognized purpose. Social institutions can be examined from both a macro and a micro level of analysis.
