SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George C. Homans, George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Seeing the general in the particular (peter berger: sociologists identify general social patters in the behaviour of particular individuals. Seeing the strange in the familiar: giving up the idea that human behaviour is simply a matter of what people decide to do, understanding that society shapes our lives. Seeing personal choice in social context: the power of society to shape even our most private choices, example: Suicide in a comparative perspective: seeing sociologically: marginality and crises. People at the margins of social life are aware of social patterns that others rarely think about. Periods of change or crises encourage us to use the sociological perspective. In a given year, canadian man are more likely than canadian women to commit suicide. Applying the sociological perspective: sociology has played an important role in the development of canadian public. Policy: sociology can have an important role in our own personal growth, assess (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) se(cid:374)se(cid:863, opportunities and constraints, empowerment, helps us live in diversity.