SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Ossification, Impression Management, Symbolic Interactionism
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Methods that blumer used he didn"t come up with it himself. Verstehen ( understanding in german) meaning that people give to their actions. We see the perspective of weber analyzing and theorizing what people do. It is not just about microfactors that we look at, but giving meaning to what people do. Blumer criticizes by-passing meaning so not considering something is important or assuming meaning is given/taken for granted. So he says that a lot of sociology looks at connection between social factors as independent variable that causes some kind of behavior. Blumer said we are overlooking the meaning people give to things such as media. There are few other things that follow what we saw last week with meaning. You can isolate with these 3 instances. Whatever we do has to do with meanigns and when blumer talks about objects he talks about physical, social (people) and the others (ideas and beliefs).
