SOC334 Study Guide - Flight Controller, Georg Simmel, Thick Description

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC334
• Professor: Ariane Hanemaayer

Document Summary

We"re going to look at subjectivity from an interpretive perspective (not weberian) as opposed to looking at subjectivity structurally as we did with althusser & wol . Go man"s interpretive perspective is more agential in reference to social institutions: the social situation, microprocesses of power. Takes from simmel the face to face embodied experience that is foundational. Incorporates some of durkheim"s arguments: de nes social action very narrowly: what happens uniquely in a social situation, the environment or setting where two or more are physically in one another"s response presenc!. telephone and mail are very di erent. He focuses on the visual (what then of the blind? and online spaces?) Conversational encounters: going to the bank; making out (doesn"t require you say anything, it is still conversational because both people at anytime can contribute equally). Platform performances: formal meetings; going to a movie.