SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Attention, Georg Simmel, Role Conflict

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Erving goffman"s: the bathroom is part of our backstage where we set up our presentation of self. Is the only self there can be: the self is not a thing, but a process of interaction. George herbert mead: symbolic interaction was based on his thinking, an individual"s personality, preferences and idea and so forth are constructed and shaped by and through communication with both others and his or herself. Self: owns own identity and social positions as made and reformed through interaction. 1945 study by rene spitz: babies have a hard time surviving biologically without stimuli, compared the babies and small children in an orphanage to those in a nursery for the children of incarcerated mothers. In the nursery (not orphanage) babies could see everything,eachother right through the bars of their cribs: the could see the bustle of attendants and visitors growing about their business around them, biggest medical problems were the common cold.