SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Symbolic Interactionism, Thomas Theorem, Verstehen

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Gerald Bierling, Jessica Braimoh

Document Summary

Sociol 1z03 lecture 4 research, methodology, and ethics. Focuses significant time on class inequality, class relations: but class isn"t the only dimension of inequality that researchers consider. Attention to interactions, and the meanings that people create, mediate, and change. How people make sense of their world. Weber"s verstehen looking at subjective experiences and how individuals make sense of it. Believe that people are active in creating their social worlds: thomas theorem: things that people define as real are real in their consequences. Looking-glass self: we develop our self-image via the cues we get from others. Interactions with each other tell us who we are: micro: based on interactions and how we make sense. I am not what i think i am and i am not what you think i am; i am what i think that you think i am .