SOCI 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Fact, Tabula Rasa, Unthinkable
3 Apr 2016
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Sacred canopy= sociology of religion sociology of religion. *understand and explain the social phenomenon and experience of religion. *social scientists, not theologians = can not answer metaphysical questions. Well known for the social construction of reality". Many of bergers approaches and concepts are still relevant to the operation of sociology today. Most of what we take to be reality is a product of society (product of social construction) Symbolic interactionism= reality is a product of social interaction. The world we inhabit is a product of human creation/interaction, most of nature is humanly constructed. Emile durkheim= founders of sociology, french, 19-20th century. *main problem= the problem of social integration, wants to know what holds society together. *sociology should be a scientific discipline (we can study sociology scientifically, we can come up with generalizations about how the world works) *one of the key thinkers of symbolic interaction. *idea that humans build human worlds" based on shared symbols and symbol systems, ex.
