CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Egotism, Differential Association, Symbolic Interactionism
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People act toward the human and nonhuman objects in their lives according to the meanings that those objects have for them. The meaning of those objects for each individual emerges from interactions between him and her and other people = social transactions . The meanings of objects change depending on the situatation and context: meaning = reality + individual interpretation in context: micro, focusing in on interperative meeting. Micro and (critical) consensualist theory (sometimes straddling the conflict line: typically not crossing over, process in which people successfully reject or fail to reject labels put on their behaviors. Howard s. becker: outsiders (marijuana smoking: jazz musician. At the time jazz musicians would smoke marijuana. The people smoked marijuana on the weekends only and then went back to their normal lives. This is discovered in their normal lives: some were fine. Successfully mobilized support strategies: others accepted the labels. Labeling and its consequences are viewed as unfolding within the deviant career.
