SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Post-Structuralism, Michel Foucault, Arlie Russell Hochschild

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

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The symbolic interaction approach looks at the meaning (the symbolic part) of the daily social interactions of individuals. Focuses on individuals and small groups and their everyday practices and interactions. George herbert mead(1863-1931: examined socialization, the development of the self, and social roles in the context of human interaction. Herbert blumer( 1900-1987: #coined the term symbolic interaction, individuals and groups create and maintain social systems through interaction. Erving goffman(1922-1982: canadian sociologist, coined the term total institution(e. g. prisons, boarding schools, concentration camps,). Which seeks to regulate, control, and manipulate its residents. *symbol- anything that is used to represent something else. Society and all of its features only exist in so much as people are perpetually create, construct, or negotiate their circumstances by drawing on symbols. We act and interest based on the meaning we attach to symbols. Stemming from the idea that our interactions create and re(cid:272)reate so(cid:272)iety is the (cid:271)asi(cid:272) assertio(cid:374) that so(cid:272)iety is (cid:862)so(cid:272)ially(cid:863) constructed.