SOCIOL 2S06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Louis Althusser, Erving Goffman, Modernization Theory

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He under stood the state as the institutions within state and institutions outside the state. Alternative definition: by cuneo, he critiqued miliband"s exclusions and althusser"s by including trade unions and family. the ideological inclusions. Instrumentalist theory: the state as an instrument of capitalists. Through the between capitalists and the state (direct personal linkages (being and linkages through state institutions (being the. Structural theory: focuses on the role of the state, the states role is shaped by structures. Have to pay attention to the contradiction between between accumulation/legitimation and relative linkages friends with prime minister) prime minister or being apart of it)) societal capitalists/worker, contradiction autonomy of state from capitalists. Symbolic interactionism (moved away from macro to micro) Cooley, mead and goffman all were interested in looking at the concept of the self. Cooley was interested in the development of the self. Mead was interested in the development of the self.