CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pussy Riot, Safety Pin, Rastafari
2 Jan 2017
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Role specific duties/norms ex. student - merton. Part both of them combined ex. student - goffman. Mertin role/status his view conflicts with goffman (part) which is more dramaturgical. Master status some characteristic of identity dominants others you attain, ex. asian and white guy, and the white guy asked the asian where she was from and he was like. Social construction we give meaning and value to objects/ideas via social interaction, things don"t inherently have meaning, ex. dollar bill doesn"t have meaning until we give meaning to it otherwise its just a piece of paper. Hebdige british sociologist, studied the beginning of cultural: subculture the meaning of style o 1. Culture is implicated in social structure and power relations. Ex. climate change is a fiction, in whose interest is it. Dominance is achieved by the ruling class and they have the ability to influence the beliefs of the others around them.
