SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Talcott Parsons, Intersectionality, Symbolic Interactionism
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Discussion questions: some sociologists would say that not all socialization happens from the top down . What do they mean by that: despite the problems capitalism brings to workers, the chances of a worker revolt or revolution seem negligible. Key people: herbert spencer, charles cooley (looking south glass, talcott parsons, erving goffman, pierre bourdieu, karl marx, emile durkheim, arlie russell hochschild (emotional labour, william j goode. Medical students not only learn about health, disease and prevention, but they also learn how to be a doctor socially. This socialization being experienced by young doctors in this instance is known as anticipatory socialization. Chen returns from a business meeting in a foreign country and his friend asks him what he thought of the people there. Chen replied that, compared to western society, he found the people to be backwards and uncultured, where they eat insects and spit everywhere .
