SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Interpersonal Communication, Verstehen, Class Consciousness
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Soc101y1 lecture 2 sociological knowledge and science. Web option lecture casts uploaded by friday. Common sense is a vital component of our life and what we do. Suspends doubt about the world more likely to take the world as it is. Focus is on action; getting you through the day, through work, through relationships; it is what makes them possible. The way we understand reality is shaped by the society in which we live. Ever era has its own aspirations, values, and standards: these realities come in clash with one another, people see the same event, see the same movie, etc. but they take different things away from it. There are multiple social realities; we live in the same physical state but we interpret it differently. Distantiation (gaining insights through increased social distance is distantiation) World is investigated for answers, for questioning rather than immediate action (understand)
